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Freud's episode with cocaine: the doctor and the monster

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Author(s):
Decio Gurfinkel
Total Authors: 1
Document type: Journal article
Source: Revista Latinoamericana de Psicopatologia Fundamental; v. 11, n. 3, p. 420-436, 2008-09-00.
Abstract

The aim of this paper is to evaluate of the possible "remaining portions" of Freud's cocaine episode on the creation of psychoanalysis creation. Specifically, the author provides a critical, analytical and retrospective examination of this episode. The result of the evaluation calls attention to four elements: the appearance of Freud as a psychiatrist and pharmacologist and the gradual abandonment of this path. But addction eventually became an object of research and self-administration was used as a method of research. In addition, the belief in a model of a magical cure was tested and subsequently abandoned. (AU)