dauerschlaf

See also: Dauerschlaf

English

Alternative forms

• dauershlaf

Etymology

Borrowed from German Dauerschlaf, from Dauer (“duration, length”) + Schlaf (“sleep”).

Noun

dauerschlaf (uncountable)

1. a prolonged sleep therapy
   • 1968, Ernest Hartmann, “DAUERSCHLAF: AN EEG STUDY”, in Psychophysiology‎^[1], volume 4, number 3, pages 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^[2], 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.‎^[3], 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^[4], 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^[5], →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^[6], Infobase, →ISBN, page 59:

     dauerschlaf See SLEEP THERAPY

   • 2009, Thomas Szasz, Coercion As Cure: A Critical History of Psychiatry‎^[7], Transaction, →ISBN, page 103:

     Dauerschlaf: Requiescat in Pace