The medical profession has a long record of treating patients with useless or harmful remedies, often in clinical settings of complete mutual confidence. Iatrogenic diseases, complications, and injury have been, in fact, common in the history of medicine. We may look upon addiction to certain dispensed drugs as one variation among the occasional effects of drug therapies.
- Dr. David Musto
- Bulletin of N.Y. Academy of Medicine
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“Never, in our concrete exercise of analytic theory, can we do without a notion of the lack of the object as central. It is not a negative, but the very mainspring of the subject's relation to the world.
Jacques Lacan, The Object Relationship
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