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Defending Freud (side A)

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The Relationship Between Cocaine and Psychoanalysis

Freud did experiment with cocaine in the 1880s. He abandoned it before he ever started to develop psychoanalysis. A lot of other doctors at the time thought this, and it was a pretty common thing. It's interesting that we're going to get to some more major crimes. Freud bears the brunt for like, well, like it's a widespread industry practice, but he's the guy that it sticks to.

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