An Anatomy of Addiction : : Sigmund Freud, William Halsted and the Miracle Drug, Cocaine

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Young Freud -- Young Halsted -- Uber coca -- An addict's death -- The accidental addict -- Cocaine damnation -- Sigmund in Paris -- Rehabilitating Halsted -- The interpretation of dreams -- The professor -- Dr. Freud's coca coda -- Dr. Halsted in limbo.
The astonishing account of the decades-long cocaine use of Sigmund Freud and William Halsted. The author discusses the physical and emotional damage caused by the constant use of the then-heralded wonder drug, and of how each man ultimately changed the world in spite of it--or because of it.

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New York : Pantheon Books, c2011.
Year Published: 2011
Description: xx, 314 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780375423307
0375423303

SUBJECTS
Freud, Sigmund, -- 1856-1939.
Halsted, William, -- 1852-1922.
Psychoanalysts -- Austria -- Biography.
Surgeons -- United States -- Biography.
Cocaine -- History.
Cocaine abuse.