dauerschlaf
See also: Dauerschlaf
English
Alternative forms
- dauershlaf
Etymology
Borrowed from German Dauerschlaf, from Dauer (“duration, length”) + Schlaf (“sleep”)
Noun
dauerschlaf (uncountable)
- a prolonged sleep therapy
- 1968, Ernest Hartmann, “DAUERSCHLAF: AN EEG STUDY”, in Psychophysiology, volume 4, number 3, page 388-389:
- REPORTS THE CONTINUOUS POLYGRAPHIC RECORDINGS MADE OF SS UNDERGOING DAUERSCHLAF, A PROLONGED SLEEP THERAPY USED FOR ACUTE PSYCHOSES AND OTHER CONDITIONS.
- 1968 Jan, Ernest Hartmann, “Dauerschlaf: A Polygraphic Study”, in Arch Gen Psychiatry, volume 18, number 1, page 99:
- THIS STUDY reports on continuous 70 to 96 hour polygraphic recordings from patients undergoing dauerschlaf or prolonged sleep therapy.
- 1977 Nov, “Requiem or Reveille: Psychiatry's Choice.”, in Bull N Y Acad Med., volume 53, number 9, page 797:
- We fully used the therapeutic enthusiasms of our day, with dauerschlaf, insulin, pentavalent arsenicals, and Kettering hypertherm.
- 1987, Nathaniel Kleitman, Sleep and Wakefulness, Univ. of Chicago Press, →ISBN:
- The induction of sleep for therapeutic purposes, so-call sleep cure or Dauerschlaf, has been practiced for many years …
- 1999, Douglas Thomas, Physiological Foundations, →ISBN, page 448:
- In insulin hypoglycemia and barbiturate medication (Dauerschlaf) …
- 2009, Charles Pollak, Michael J. Thorpy, Jan Yager, The Encyclopedia of Sleep and Sleep Disorders, Infobase, →ISBN, page 59:
- dauerschlaf See SLEEP THERAPY
- 2009, Thomas Szasz, Coercion As Cure: A Critical History of Psychiatry, Transaction, →ISBN, page 103:
- Dauerschlaf: Requiescat in Pace
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