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psychoprophylaxis

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psychoprophylaxis
[-prō′filak′sis]
a type of psychotherapy that is directed to prevention of emotional disorders. For example, it is used in the preparation for childbirth to reduce a woman's anxiety about pain and birth of a normal child.
psychoprophylaxis [si″ko-pro″fĭ-lak´sis]
a method of prepared childbirth using mental and physical training aimed at preventing pain and modifying the perception of painful sensations associated with normal uncomplicated childbirth; see also lamaze method. adj., adj psychoprophylac´tic.
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VELVOSKI, I; PLATONOV, K; PLOTICHER, V & SHUGOM, E 1960: Painless childbirth through psychoprophylaxis.
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