Serge Birbrair
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I think this thread can now be described in few words as: The French Paradox is something many people today are getting quite familiar to. In October 1885 Freud went to Paris on a travelling fellowship to study with Europe's most renowned neurologist, Jean Martin Charcot. Studies have suggested a close relationship between the moderate consumption of red wine and a healthy heart. He was later to remember the experience of this stay as catalytic in turning him toward the practice of medical psychopathology and away from a less financially promising career in research neurology. This phenomenon goes under the name French Paradox because although the French eat as much saturated fat as Americans, they seem to enjoy better overall cardiovascular health. Charcot specialised in the study of hysteria and its susceptibility to hypnosis which he frequently demonstrated with patients on stage in front of an audience. Even though these studies show that polyphenols, which is in red wine, can help your heart, blood circulation, and many other things, doctors still argue about this, especially American doctors disagree with this outcome. Freud later turned away from hypnosis as a potential cure, favouring free association and dream analysis. Blue, Colonel, carry on, as I can no longer have any free association with dream analysis induced by too much of French paradoxing.
< Message edited by Serge Birbrair -- 7/12/2008 2:12:13 PM >
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