narcoanalysis

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English

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Etymology

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From narco- +‎ analysis.

Noun

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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.
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