by C. P. Boyko
The Inner Life
185 Epigraph: Joseph Collins, in the introduction to Jane Hillyer, Reluctantly Told. (Macmillan, 1935.) p. ix.
187 The psychic effect … which it belongs. Sigmund Freud, The Cocaine Papers. (Edited by Robert Byck. Stonehill, 1974.) p. 60.
188 “increase the reduced functioning of the nerve centers.” Ibid., p. 64.
188 “the third scourge of humanity”: Quoted in Ernest Jones, The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud. (Hogarth, 1953.) vol. 1, p. 104 (of 454).
188 by mouth cocaine was harmless, under the skin sometimes dangerous. Ibid., vol. 1, p. 105 (of 454).
188-189 “unjustified fears” … increasing the dose.” Cocaine Papers, pp. 109 and 117.
189 “advisable to abandon … nervous disorders.” Ibid., p. 175.
189 “These injections … himself cocaine injections.” Freud, Standard Edition, vol. 4, p. 115.
179 “song of praise to this magical substance”: Jones, vol. 1, p. 93 (of 454).
190 What I saw in her throat … date of the dream. Freud, Standard Edition, vol. 4, p. 111.
191 Injections of that sort … given by injection. Ibid., p. 117.
192-195 I am toying now with a project … This and several quotations that follow come from Letters of Sigmund Freud. (Edited by Ernst L. Freud. Basic Books, 1960.) April 21, 1884, pp. 107-108; June 29, 1884, p. 115; May 17, 1885, p. 145; January 18, 1886, p. 193; January 20, 1886, p. 195; and February 2, 1886, pp. 201, 202, and 203.
195 The effect … ward off fatigue. Freud, Cocaine Papers, p. 61.
198 I had begun to suspect … was a masturbator. Freud, Standard Edition, vol. 7, pp. 78-79. In fact, this reference does not appear under “cocaine” in the index volume of The Standard Edition.
199 “in the nose … in other organs.” Quoted in Freud, The Complete Letters of Sigmund Freud to Wilhelm Fliess. p. 71, footnote.
199-200 Swellings of the nasal mucosa … This long sentence and the one that follows it are close enough to direct quotations to need a citation: Max Schur, Freud Living and Dying. (Hogarth, 1972.) p. 66, footnote. Frank J. Sulloway, Freud, Biologist of the Mind. (Basic, 1979.) p. 140.
200 “The number of symptoms … in the nose. Quoted in Freud, The Origins of Psychoanalysis. (Edited by Marie Bonaparte, Anna Freud, and Ernst Kris, translated by Eric Mosbacher and James Strachey. Basic Books, 1954.) p. 5.
200-201 Both Freud and Fliess … also constantly prescribed. Jones, vol. 1, p. 339 (of 454).
201-210 “I am now making this diagnosis … what to do then.” This, and all but one of the quotations that follow, are from The Complete Letters to Wilhelm Fliess: May 30, 1893, p. 49; January 24, 1895, p. 106; April 20, 1895, p. 126; June 12, 1895, p. 132; October 26, 1896, p. 201; June 18, 1897, pp. 252-253; November 16, 1898, p. 334; March 8, 1895, p. 117; May 21, 1894, p. 74; December 3, 1897, p. 284; and September 27, 1898, p. 329.
202 “let the biographers worry, we have no desire to make it too easy for them!” Freud, Letters, April 28, 1885, p. 141.
The Blood-Brain Barrier
223 Epigraphs: Meyer Levin, Compulsion. (Simon and Schuster, 1956.) p. 342 (of 495). L.S. Hearnshaw, Cyril Burt, Psychologist. (Hodder and Stoughton, 1979.) p. 261 (of 370).
218 Do you have any objection to me calling you Professor? Thomas Szasz, Psychiatric Justice. (Macmillan, 1965.) p. 204.
228 “If I said to you a table and a chair … Parts of this interview are adapted from Ronald Markman (with Dominick Bosco), Alone With The Devil: Famous Cases of a Courtroom Psychiatrist. (Doubleday, 1989.) pp. 88-89.
238 NOTAL: This rather striking typo is borrowed from Jay Ziskin, Coping With Psychiatric and Psychological Testimony. (Law and Psychology Press, 1981.) vol. 2, p. 240. My courtroom dialogue owes much to the sample case in volume 2, which reads almost like a novel. Highly recommended.
241 Orson Welles: Dialogue from the movie Compulsion (1959), based on the novel by Meyer Levin, which was itself based on the famous Loeb and Leopold case.
266 great physiologist: Charles Sherrington, Man On His Nature. (Cambridge University Press, 1951.) p. 178 (of 300). In a famous passage he compares the awakening brain to “an enchanted loom where millions of flashing shuttles weave a dissolving pattern, always a meaningful pattern though never an abiding one—a shifting harmony of subpatterns. It is as if the Milky Way entered upon some cosmic dance.”
267 Is the meter running while you are in court? Ziskin, Coping, vol. 2, p. 334.
273 “The main thing is you don’t treat sex like a big deal …” This sentiment is Freud’s: “What is really important is that children should never get the idea that one wants to make more of a secret of the facts of sexual life than of any other matter which is not yet accessible to their understanding.” “The Sexual Enlightenment of Children,” in Standard Edition, vol. 9, p. 138.
280 I think it would be difficult for anyone to go on practicing psychology if they were wrong most of the time. Ziskin, Coping, vol. 2, p. 55.
Notes on Sources
293 Epigraph: Liam Hudson, The Cult of the Fact. (Jonathan Cape, 1972.) pp. 163-164.
297-301 The citations to the works of Jim Bird—and Barton Q. Barnard—are fictional; Jim Bird and Barton Q. Barnard are fictional.
So, of course, are all the characters in this book; so, for that matter, am I.