The use of narcoanalysis by Polish counterintelligence in the 1930s

• Authors: Jan Widacki

Abstracts

EN

From Introduction: "The initial idea of using narcoanalysis for investigation purposes arose soon after surgeons began using narcosis (sedation) to induce sleep during surgery. There are four phases that a patient goes through in general anaesthesia (e.g. with ether or chloroform): the state of shock or analgesia (stadium analgesiae), the state of delirium (stadium excitationis), the state of surgical anaesthesia (stadium anaestesiae chirurgicae), and the stage of respiratory arrest (stadium asphycticum) (Danysz, Gryglewski, 1982)."(...)

Keywords

EN

narcoanalysis; “truth serum”; polish counterintelligence; second department of the polish general staff

• Publisher: Krakowska Akademia im. Andrzeja Frycza Modrzewskiego
• Journal: European Polygraph
• Year: 2021
• Volume: 15
• Issue: 1 (53)
• Pages: 39-52

Contributors

author

Jan Widacki

• Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski Kraków University, Kraków, Poland

Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/EP-2021-0003

Biblioteka Nauki

1197610