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Sunday, July 31, 2011

Freudian Addiction

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception


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A very absorbing topic ... in the early days of medicine and psychoanalysis when men of promising brilliance became unwitting addicts to cocaine and other substances through experimentation and the bewildering hubris of ego slain by the soaring warmth of narcotic dilusion.

In this book Sigmund Freud and William Halsted's early careers are explored as they fell under the narco spell and the effect of thus on their seminal contributions.

Read this book - An Anatomy of Addiction by Howard Markel. 

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