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English
Etymology
Borrowed from German Dauerschlaf, from Dauer (“duration, length”) + Schlaf (“sleep”).
Noun
dauerschlaf (uncountable)
- A prolonged sleep therapy.
1968, Ernest Hartmann, “DAUERSCHLAF: AN EEG STUDY”, in Psychophysiology, volume 4, number 3, pages 388–389:REPORTS THE CONTINUOUS POLYGRAPHIC RECORDINGS MADE OF SS UNDERGOING DAUERSCHLAF, A PROLONGED SLEEP THERAPY USED FOR ACUTE PSYCHOSES AND OTHER CONDITIONS.
1968 Jan, Ernest Hartmann, “Dauerschlaf: A Polygraphic Study”, in Arch Gen Psychiatry, volume 18, number 1, page 99:THIS STUDY reports on continuous 70 to 96 hour polygraphic recordings from patients undergoing dauerschlaf or prolonged sleep therapy.
1977 Nov, “Requiem or Reveille: Psychiatry's Choice.”, in Bull N Y Acad Med., volume 53, number 9, page 797:We fully used the therapeutic enthusiasms of our day, with dauerschlaf, insulin, pentavalent arsenicals, and Kettering hypertherm.
1987, Nathaniel Kleitman, Sleep and Wakefulness, Univ. of Chicago Press, →ISBN:The induction of sleep for therapeutic purposes, so-call sleep cure or Dauerschlaf, has been practiced for many years …
1999, Douglas Thomas, Physiological Foundations, →ISBN, page 448:In insulin hypoglycemia and barbiturate medication (Dauerschlaf) …
2009, Charles Pollak, Michael J. Thorpy, Jan Yager, The Encyclopedia of Sleep and Sleep Disorders, Infobase, →ISBN, page 59:dauerschlaf See SLEEP THERAPY
2009, Thomas Szasz, Coercion As Cure: A Critical History of Psychiatry, Transaction, →ISBN, page 103:Dauerschlaf: Requiescat in Pace