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narco- Psychol.|ˈnɑːkəʊ|
[f. Gr. νάρκη numbness.]
Prefixed to a n. to indicate that use is made, in the treatment specified by the n., of a drug (usu. a barbiturate such as amylobarbitone or thiopentone sodium) which, while inducing relaxation, facilitates the remembering and verbalizing of repressed emotional experiences. So narco-analysis, narco-hypnosis (also narco-hypnotic adj.), narco-therapy; narco-synthesis, the acceptance into the conscious self of repressed emotional experiences revealed by the use of drugs.
1936J. S. Horsley in Jrnl. Mental Sci. LXXXII. 416 Narco-analysis is an eclectic technique based on the observation that a combination of narcosis with psycho-therapy is quicker and sometimes more effective than the formal methods of analytical psychology. 1943― (title) Narco-analysis. Ibid. i. 3 Clearly any title which suggests that a particular narcotic is essential to the technique is undesirable. Therefore I devised the term ‘Narco-Analysis’ which is inclusive of all such methods. 1973E. Rudinger Treatm. & Care in Mental Illness (rev. ed.) 161 Narco-analysis or abreaction is a treatment that is also available privately, but the drugs used and the nursing home fee have to be paid in addition to the psychiatrist's fee.
1949A. Huxley Let. 21 Oct. (1969) 605 The world's rulers will discover that infant conditioning and narco-hypnosis are..efficient. 1974Hawkey & Bingham Wild Card v. 51 McElroy was sufficiently promising a subject to be questioned under narco-hypnosis.
1949A. Huxley Let. 9 Dec. (1969) 611 The latest in..narco-hypnotic techniques.
1945Grinker & Spiegel Men under Stress iii. v. 102 Here he underwent pentothal narcosynthesis and ventilated his intense anxiety. 1955A. Huxley Let. 10 Jan. (1969) 720 Mescalin..acts in the opposite way to narcosynthesis. 1958[see abreaction]. 1963Times 9 Mar. 8/1 It is believed to be the first instance in which narcosynthesis—a technique to help patients release suppressed or forgotten information—has ever been used for this purpose.
1966P. Polatin Guide to Treatm. in Psychiatry v. 50 Narcotherapy is most effective for acute anxiety states, conversion reactions and dissociative phenomena such as amnesias and fugues. 1968S. Loebl Exploring the Mind xv. 184 Hypnotherapy and narcotherapy, as these procedures are called, have by now become part of psychiatry's ever-growing therapeutic arsenal. |