narcoanalysis

English

Etymology

From narco- +‎ analysis.

Noun

narcoanalysis (countable and uncountable, plural narcoanalyses)

1. (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:

     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.

Related terms

• narcosynthesis

Translations

psychotherapy which uses drugs to induce a sleeplike state

• Catalan: narcoanàlisi f
• French: narcoanalyse (fr) f
• Italian: narcoanalisi f
• Portuguese: narcoanálise f
• Romanian: narcoanaliză (ro) f
• Spanish: narcoanálisis m