单词 | narco- |
释义 | narco-comb. form 1. Psychology. Forming nouns and related adjectives in which narco- indicates the use in psychotherapy of a narcotic drug (usually a barbiturate such as amylobarbitone or thiopentone) to induce relaxation and (supposedly) facilitate the recollection of repressed emotional experiences. a. narcoanalysis n. Brit. /ˌnɑːkəʊəˈnalᵻsɪs/ , U.S. /ˌnɑrkoʊəˈnæləsəs/ ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > psychiatry > [noun] > therapy or analysis involving drugs narcoanalysis1936 narcosis1936 narcosynthesis1943 narco-hypnosis1947 1936 J. S. Horsley in Lancet 4 Jan. 56/1 The successful combination of narcosis with psychotherapy would be a real advance in mental treatment... In an attempt to extend this line of investigation,..I have evolved a technique which I call ‘narco-analysis’. 1973 E. 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. 1992 N.Y. Times 21 July c5/2 The debate focuses on the methods some therapists use to help people retrieve repressed memories of childhood sexual abuse, particularly hypnosis and ‘narcoanalysis’. narcoanalytic adj. Brit. /ˌnɑːkəʊanəˈlɪtɪk/ , U.S. /ˌnɑrkoʊˌænəˈlɪdɪk/ ΚΠ 1943 J. S. Horsley Narco-analysis ix. 80 It is often an advantage in these cases to follow the narco-analytic session with a period of deep narcosis. 1971 Science 26 Nov. 902/2 This similarity might..be used to account for the success of the widely practiced narcoanalytic technique of abreacting a traumatic, hyperaroused experience in a hypoaroused state of similar ‘Self’-to-‘I’ ratio. 1988 Canad. Jrnl. Psychiatry 33 147 Recovery of neurological function during a narcoanalytic interview confirmed the diagnosis of a conversion reaction. narco-hypnosis n. Brit. /ˌnɑːkə(ʊ)hɪpˈnəʊsɪs/ , U.S. /ˌnɑrkoʊˌhɪpˈnoʊsəs/ ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > psychiatry > [noun] > therapy or analysis involving drugs narcoanalysis1936 narcosis1936 narcosynthesis1943 narco-hypnosis1947 1947 Amer. Jrnl. Psychoanal. 7 3/1 Among the pharmacological therapies are metrazal and insulin shock, prolonged narcosis, narcoanalysis, narcohypnosis, and narcosynthesis. 1949 A. Huxley Let. 21 Oct. (1969) 605 The world's rulers will discover that infant conditioning and narco-hypnosis are..efficient. 1974 R. Hawkey & R. Bingham Wild Card v. 51 McElroy was sufficiently promising a subject to be questioned under narco-hypnosis. narco-hypnotic adj. Brit. /ˌnɑːkə(ʊ)hɪpˈnɒtɪk/ , U.S. /ˌnɑrkoʊˌhɪpˈnɑdɪk/ ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > psychiatry > [adjective] > relating to therapy or analysis involving drugs narco-hypnotic1949 1949 A. Huxley Let. 9 Dec. (1969) 611 The latest in..narco-hypnotic techniques. 1950 Amer. Jrnl. Psychiatry 106 692/2 It [sc. pentothal] is of value from both a narcoanalytic and a narcohypnotic point of view. narcotherapy n. Brit. /ˌnɑːkə(ʊ)ˈθɛrəpi/ , U.S. /ˌnɑrkoʊˈθɛrəpi/ ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > treatment by medicine or drug > [noun] > treatment with specific substances > narcotherapy narcotherapy1946 1946 Yale Jrnl. Biol. & Med. 19 195 Doubtless, most have heard of ‘narcotherapy’, ‘narcoanalysis’, and ‘narcosynthesis’. 1946 Yale Jrnl. Biol. & Med. 19 196 During the war, narcotherapy was systematized and applied on a wider scale than ever before. 1968 S. Loebl Exploring Mind xv. 184 Hypnotherapy and narcotherapy, as these procedures are called, have by now become part of psychiatry's ever-growing therapeutic arsenal. 1995 Neuropsychobiol. 31 182 (title) Isoflurane narcotherapy in depressive patients refractory to conventional antidepressant drug treatment. b. narcosynthesis n. Brit. /ˌnɑːkə(ʊ)ˈsɪnθᵻsɪs/ , U.S. /ˌnɑrkoʊˈsɪnθəsəs/ the reliving or re-enactment of a traumatic experience while under the influence of a narcotic drug.ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > psychiatry > [noun] > therapy or analysis involving drugs narcoanalysis1936 narcosis1936 narcosynthesis1943 narco-hypnosis1947 1943 R. R. Grinker & J. P. Spiegel War Neuroses in N. Afr. 157 Narcosynthesis causes the patient to re-experience the intense emotions..originally associated with the traumatic battle experiences and..the action of the drug enables the patient to deal with these revived emotions in a more economical and rational manner. 1945 R. R. Grinker & J. P. Spiegel Men under Stress iii. v. 102 Here he underwent pentothal narcosynthesis and ventilated his intense anxiety. 1963 Times 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. 1998 J. F. Kihlstrom in S. J. Lynn & K. M. McConkey Truth in Memory i. 8 In the early 1930s, two simultaneous lines of work led to the development of a pharmacological technique that came to be known as narcosynthesis. 2. Prefixed to nouns, with the sense ‘associated with the trade in illegal drugs’. a. Forming nouns denoting money generated by the trade in illegal drugs, as narco-buck, narco-dollar, narco-billion, etc., and a person who possesses (a lot of) such money, as narco-billionaire, narco-millionaire, etc. ΚΠ 1981 Newsweek 11 May 27/2 Buy-and-bust techniques that simply aren't fazing modern narcomillionaires. 1981 Washington Post (Nexis) 6 Aug. a3 Of course, Florida's booming economy can't all be laid to drug lords seeking to launder ‘narcobucks’. Florida has always been an attractive haven for Latin American wealth. 1983 Jrnl. Interamerican Stud. & World Affairs 25 340 The principal contributor to la otra economía is narcodollars. 1992 Concord Monitor (Concord, New Hampsh.) 7 July a2/2 Two of the three Colombian entries on the Forbes list are ‘narco-billionaires’, running their empires from prison. 1994 Time Internat. 25 July 30/1 The national police chief..had also been on the receiving end of narco-funds. 1997 Sun (Baltimore) (Nexis) 7 Mar. 14 a The narco-billions rolled in. b. Forming nouns denoting social or political phenomena attendant upon the trade in illegal drugs, as narco-crime, narco-militarism, narco-terrorism, etc., or a person involved in such phenomena, as narco-guerrilla, narco-terrorist, etc. ΚΠ 1982 Associated Press Newswire (Nexis) 8 Mar. A new threat to the free world: Narco-terrorism. 1984 National Rev. (Nexis) 24 Aug. 17 More bad news for trendy young urban professionals: the crackdown on the cocaine-making narco-guerrillas continues. 1984 U.S. News & World Rep. 27 Aug. 35 Some governments have no stomach for campaigns against drugs or rebels, [and] instead become allies of the narco-terrorists. 1988 Los Angeles Times 28 Feb. i. 6/6 Lewis attacked Noriega as the representative of what he called a new threat to Latin America—‘narco-militarism’. 1995 Daily Tel. 23 Mar. 18/5 Every piece of news about terrorism, narco-crime, violent fundamentalism, even serial killing adds authenticity to the Creveld vision. 2000 N.Y. Times 14 May iv. 4/1 You are seeing, in a sense, the hollowing-out of government in critical regions of Latin America and its replacement by individuals who are, in fact, introducing a narco-government, a small narco-empire. c. Forming nouns denoting the trade in or movement of illegal drugs, as narco-trade, narco-traffic, narco-trafficking, etc., or a person involved in such trade, as narco-trader, narco-trafficker (cf. earlier narcotraficante n.), etc. ΚΠ 1984 United Press Internat. Newswire (Nexis) 31 Dec. The narco-traffickers are the lesser of two evils and we will have to put up with them for a little longer. 1985 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 5 Apr. a8 Do you agree with him about narco traffic? Are you going to take some new action with the Contadora group? 1986 Defense & Foreign Affairs (Nexis) Jan. 19 The ‘narcotrade’ is now becoming an important business within South America as a whole. 1988 Christian Sci. Monitor (Nexis) 12 Jan. 7 People feel their government is attacking the growth and prosecution of narcotrafficking as a favor to the US. The Army is using more than 25,000 of its 125,000 soldiers to fight the drug traffic. 1992 Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (Nexis) 8 Apr. 14 a The Peruvian military is riddled with people co-opted by narco traders. 1993 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 12 Aug. 20/1 We have entered an era of Balkan chaos, fundamentalist terrorism, ecological apocalypse, international narco-business, runaway population growth, and runaway ignorance. 2000 Sunday Times 23 July (Mag.) 16/1 Nuniez's stories on narco-trafficking have earned him many death threats. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < comb. form1936 |
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