Sigmund Freud died #OnThisDay in 1939. He was an Austrian neurologist best known for developing the theories and techniques of psychoanalysis.
“Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.”
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'As a medical researcher, Freud was an early user and proponent of cocaine as a stimulant as well as analgesic. He believed that cocaine was a cure for many mental and physical problems. Between 1883 and 1887 he wrote several articles recommending medical applications
Freud also recommended cocaine as a cure for morphine addiction. He had introduced cocaine to his friend Ernst von Fleischl-Marxow, who had become addicted to morphine taken to relieve years of excruciating nerve pain resulting from an infection acquired after injuring himself...
... while performing an autopsy. His claim that Fleischl-Marxow was cured of his addiction was premature. Fleischl-Marxow developed an acute case of "cocaine psychosis", and soon returned to using morphine, dying a few years later still suffering from intolerable pain."
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