FREUD ON COKE
Book ID/图书代码： 12100010B37030
English Summary/英文概要： Before he’d thought up putting patients on the couch and interpreting their dreams, the young Sigmund Freud did a whole lot of coke. Desperate to make his reputation as a doctor quickly, and to raise the cash to marry his fiancée, Martha, Freud read – and swallowed without question – astonishing claims made by an American pharmaceutical company, Parker Davis, on behalf of their new ‘wonder drug’, cocaine hydrochloride. Proposed as a cure for ailments ranging from gastric catarrh to female nymphomania, cocaine was, at the time, thought to be harmless, and Freud ordered his first gram, hoping to find a medicinal use for the drug that would be hailed as a great discovery...and thus deliver Martha to his bed.
Prone to depression, deeply obsessive, sexually repressed and unhappy, Freud took his cocaine...and took some more. And, in the manner of oh-so-many 20th century writers, rock stars, estate agents, sex workers, Colombian serial killers and at least the current President of the United States, he took some more again. He gave some to Martha: he gave it to friends as a cure for indigestion. He tried it on patients with headaches, on practitioners of masturbation, on every depressive who came his way. Funnily enough, they all kept coming back for more.
Convinced of its therapeutic benefits, and blissfully ignorant of his growing dependency, Freud managed to overlook both the one legitimate use of cocaine – as a local anaesthetic – and the fact that its euphoric effect had no medicinal value. Freud on Coke explores Freud’s use of the drug, its influence on his later thought, and the subsequent, complex relationship between psychology, psychiatry, drugs and culture.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 臨床治療和精神分析理論的現代心理學奠基石
佛洛依德與奇藥 (wonder drug) - 古柯鹼之迷
2008年新諾貝爾醫學獎追授給西格蒙德 佛洛依德(Sigmund Freud)。佛洛德終生從事著作和臨床治療，他創立的精神分析理論是現代心理學的奠基石，它的影響遠遠超出臨床心理學領域，對於整個心理科學乃至西方人文科學的各個領域均有深遠的影響，它的影響可與達爾文的進化論相提並論。
而本書探討佛洛依德在1884年發表一篇論文，當中大力肯定古柯鹼，在他的論文中說明古柯鹼這項藥物具有超自然的效果，包括持續不斷的愉悅，比起健康人所能感受到的程度，感覺更能控制自己，感覺更能夠應付工作，持久而密集的心志和肉體勞動，能夠在毫無疲倦的情況下完成。那些強制對於食物和睡眠的需求，好像被一掃而空。各方意見都一致同意這種愉悅在之後並不會有任何疲乏或憂鬱的副作用。佛洛依德這篇報告說明擁有這種奇蹟般特質的物質，對於人類來說都像是一種恩典。但是，這個奇蹟之藥就是古柯鹼。
而後佛洛伊德在 1885 年發表的研究報告，美國製藥廠對於佛洛伊德這段描述，開始研究其相關佛洛依德的發表，使古柯鹼廣為被醫學界所運用，而本書正是探索弗洛伊德對藥物用途的發現運用，以及對他近期的研究，如何影響隨後心理學與精神病學、藥物和文化之間的複雜關係。(CL)
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About the Author/作者介绍： David Cohen is author of JR Books’ The Escape of Sigmund Freud. Also biographer of JB Watson and Carl Rogers, his Diana: Death of a Goddess was a UK bestseller. A BAFTA-nominated documentary filmmaker, he was the first Western journalist to gain access to Soviet Psychiatric wards, resulting in the movie Gorbachev’s Asylums. He was editor of the magazine Psychology News and holds a PhD in Psychology.
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