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The fifteen years in question, throughout which Freud used and recommended cocaine was
1) in the historical context of not yet understanding scientifically (like now) the effects of cocaine – your sources project back our current understanding and conclude that, DURR, FREUD DUMB (this is called ahistoricity). Freud was in the environment of his contemporary psychiatry out of which he desperately tried to escape;
2) in his personal period wherein Freud was still employed as a psychiatrist. This discipline itself was in its primitive days. Freud's invention (or introduction of) psychoanalysis marks the very break with said discipline. For one thing, after his "epistemological break" with psychiatry, Freud advocated for the utilization of – what he called – "the talking cure," meaning that psychological problems must be, and can only be effectively alleviated through the medium of speech, free association, the produced slips and their questioning, and so on. You will not find a single recommendation from Freud to his patients after he begin developing psychoanalysis, to start using cocaine, in other words;
3) your dubious (yellow press, rather) sources' whole aim is to discredit Freud by looking at his personal life, trying to discredit him by stating that he 'sharted out this BS theory of psychoanalysis while being on drugs'. May I remind you that one of (if not the) most important mathematician of the 20th century, Paul Erdős, was an amphetamine addict his entire life? Does this discredit him? I don't think so. Freud using cocaine BEFORE the scientific understanding of addiction and coming off of the stuff from his own volition and by finding out its adverse affects ultimately prove his intelligence;
4) You, in your shitty retort, try to compare the whole industry of contemporary big pharma's profit oriented genocide of people with mental problems to a 19th century man experimenting on the cutting edge of his contemporary science. I already provided a video explaining this, and naturally you don't bother to respond to it;
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