Psychoprophylaxis

Quick meaning: Psychoprophylaxis is a noun meaning A method of preparing women for natural childbirth by means of special breathing, relaxation techniques and psychological conditioning, practiced without anaesthetics.

Meaning

A method of preparing women for natural childbirth by means of special breathing, relaxation techniques and psychological conditioning, practiced without anaesthetics.

More Meanings

1. (obsolete, rare) The prevention of disease by psychological means.

Example Sentences

Psychoprophylaxis, the preparation of the mind to deal with pain naturally, has and is still being used for pain relief during labor and delivery.

The growing emphasis on the emotional aspects of the physical bearing of children has greatly changed the practice of obstetrics across the world — from psychoprophylaxis in Russia to natural childbirth in America.

The field of psychoprophylaxis is somewhat more extended. In preventing diseases clearly outside of the field just referred to, it is sometimes most potent! In some so-called germ diseases its influence is most beneficial.

The essence of psychoprophylaxis, as of psychotherapy and education, was to associate useful activities with agreeable feeling tones, and to disassociate from useless or injurious acts the agreeable feeling tones they might have acquired.

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