narcoanalysis
nounEtymology From narco- + analysis.
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Medicine, Sciences A form of psychotherapy in which the patient is administered drugs in order to attain a sleeplike state.
- 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.1957 September 5, Jack Kerouac, On the Road, New York, N.Y.: Viking Press, →OCLC:
- Related terms
- narcosynthesis