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English
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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.
Author
Series
Twayne's world authors volume TWAS 885
Publisher
Twayne Publishers
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
xv, 167 pages : portraits ; 23 cm.
Language
English
17) Sigmund Freud
Author
Series
Giants of science (Viking) volume 3
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
144 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Before Freud, nobody discussed "unconscious" motives, Oedipal complexes, the id and the ego, or Freudian slips. Freud was a complicated, often irascible man, who in 19th-century Vienna developed his still-controversial ideas and the new discipline of psychoanalysis.
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Publisher
A & E Home Video
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 50 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
His revolutionary ideas transformed our conception of the mind. Yet the father of psychoanalysis was plagued by neurotic fears and troubling obsessions. Freud is arguably the most influential thinker of modern times. His theories continue to inspire discovery and debate. Revisit the life of the man who was once derided as the 'Doctor of Love'. From the childhood that inspired many of his radical ideas to his eventual worldwide fame, this program explores...
Author
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
ix, 580 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Élisabeth Roudinesco offers a bold and modern reinterpretation of the iconic founder of psychoanalysis. Based on new archival sources, this is Freud's biography for the twenty-first century--a critical appraisal, at once sympathetic and impartial, of a genius greatly admired and yet greatly misunderstood in his own time and in ours. Roudinesco traces Freuds life from his upbringing as the eldest of eight siblings in a prosperous Jewish-Austrian household...
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