单词 | narcosis therapy |
释义 | > as lemmasnarcosis therapy narcosis therapy n. Psychiatry (now rare) the production of prolonged continuous sleep for therapeutic purposes; cf. narcotherapy n. at narco- comb. form 1a. ΚΠ 1932 Amer. Jrnl. Psychiatry 12 143 (title) Prolonged narcosis as therapy in the psychoses. 1932 Amer. Jrnl. Psychiatry 12 143 American psychiatry has..manifested a renewed interest in prolonged deep narcosis as a therapeutic procedure in the psychoses.] 1945 R. R. Grinker & J. P. Spiegel Men under Stress iv. xvii. 394 At the present time, aside from the method of narcosis therapy (continuous sleep), the use of intravenous barbiturates is dignified by three different terms. 1969 Hosp. & Community Psychiatry 20 137/2 In the 1930s the treatment of involutional melancholia left a great deal to be desired. Some patients were treated in continuous tubs... Sometimes sodium amytal was used in massive doses for ‘narcosis therapy’. 1978 Nursing Times 1 June 923/1 ‘What is narcosis therapy?’.. It is a treatment used in psychiatry for a wide range of disorders, by securing long periods of sleep. < as lemmas |
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