narcoanalysisとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

narcoanalysis (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 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 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.

関連する語

• narcosynthesis