An anatomy of addiction : Sigmund Freud, William Halsted and the miracle drug, cocaine
Edition
1st ed.
Publication Information
New York : Pantheon Books, 2011.
Physical Description
XX, 314 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Summary
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.
Contents
- 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.