narcoanalysis

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Ancient Greek νάρκη (nárkē)

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-oyétider.?

Ancient Greek -όω (-óō)

Ancient Greek ναρκόω (narkóō)

English narco-

Proto-Indo-European *h₂en-

Proto-Hellenic *aná

Ancient Greek ᾰ̓νᾰ́ (ănắ)

Ancient Greek ἀνα- (ana-)

Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁-der.

Ancient Greek λύω (lúō)

Ancient Greek ἀναλύω (analúō)

Proto-Indo-European *-tós

Proto-Indo-European *-is

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Hellenic *-tis

Ancient Greek -τῐς (-tĭs)

Ancient Greek -σις (-sis)

Ancient Greek ἀνάλυσις (análusis)bor.

Medieval Latin analysisbor.

English analysis

English narcoanalysis

narcoanalysis (countable and uncountable, plural narcoanalyses)

(medicine) A form of psychotherapy in which the patient is administered drugs in order to attain a sleeplike state.
- 1957 September 5, Jack Kerouac, On the Road, New York, N.Y.: Viking Press, →OCLC:
  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.

psychotherapy which uses drugs to induce a sleeplike state