narcoanalysis
English
Etymology
narco- + analysis
Noun
narcoanalysis (countable and uncountable, plural narcoanalyses)
- (medicine) A form of psychotherapy in which the patient is administered drugs in order to attain a sleeplike state.
- 1957, Jack Kerouac, On the Road, Viking Press, OCLC 43419454:
- He had a set of chains in his room that he said he used with his psychoanalyst; they were experimenting with narcoanalysis and found that Old Bull had seven separate personalities, each growing worse and worse on the way down, till finally he was a raving idiot and had to be restrained with chains.
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Related terms
- narcosynthesis
Translations
psychotherapy which uses drugs to induce a sleeplike state
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