Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Psychotherapy conducted while the patient is in a sleeplike state induced by barbiturates or other drugs, especially as a means of releasing repressed feelings, thoughts, or memories. Its use is restricted to circumstances where there is a compelling, immediate need for a patient's responses.
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- noun medicine A form of
psychotherapy in which the patient is administereddrugs in order to attain a sleeplike state.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Whenever I endorse narcoanalysis for terrorists, people ask how we could put someone in a semi-surgical state and insert something into them without their consent?
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The culprit has not come out on his own .... that's why we are adopting the scientific method of narcoanalysis.
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DOANE (on camera): There is a lot of speculation about the information coming out of this narcoanalysis, but police officials tell CNN it will take at least three to four days for the tests to be completed and then we may know more.
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That's why we are adopting the scientific method of narcoanalysis.
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T.D. D.GRA, FORENSIC MED.CINE, AIMS: This is narcoanalysis -- the person is administered some drug -- say for example, sodium pentothal may be given and after administering this drug, to a level the person goes to a stage of that neither is unconscious nor is conscious.
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There has been some success with the use of hypnosis and narcoanalysis, specifically sodium amylobarbitone.
Dreams of the Raven Carmen Carter 2000
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There has been some success with the use of hypnosis and narcoanalysis, specifically sodium amylobarbitone.
Dreams of the Raven Carmen Carter 2000
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There has been some success with the use of hypnosis and narcoanalysis, specifically sodium amylobarbitone.
Dreams of the Raven Carmen Carter 2000
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There has been some success with the use of hypnosis and narcoanalysis, specifically sodium amylobarbitone.
Dreams of the Raven Carmen Carter 2000
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There has been some success with the use of hypnosis and narcoanalysis, specifically sodium amylobarbitone.
Dreams of the Raven Carmen Carter 2000
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