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ˌpsychoprophyˈlaxis Med.
Also with hyphen and (rare) anglicized as -prophylaxy.
[f. psycho- + prophylaxis.]
A method intended to reduce or eliminate labour pains in which prenatal women are given an understanding of natural childbirth in order to obtain their physical co-operation with the process.
1958I. Bonstein Psychoprophylactic Preparation for Painless Childbirth 5 It will be necessary to use them [sc. drugs] each time various difficulties prevent a confinement, prepared by psychoprophylaxy, from being continued until the end. 1960D. A. Myshne tr. Velvovsky's Painless Childbirth through Psychoprophylaxis viii. 167 By psychoprophylaxis of labour pain we imply a system of measures aimed at preventing the appearance and development of labour pain and effected through influences exerted on the higher divisions of the central nervous system. 1965Observer 1 Aug. 5/6 Dr. Pierre Vellay..has made Paris a world centre of psycho-prophylaxis. 1972J.-P. Clerc in N. Morris Psychosomatic Med. in Obstetr. & Gynæcol. 76 The first object of psychoprophylaxis is to eliminate the pain which is due to socio-cultural factors and may thus be regarded as psychosomatic. 1978Jrnl. R. Soc. Med. LXXI. 663 Attempts have been made to measure psychological factors.., the benefits of psychoprophylaxis..and attitudinal aspects to antenatal education, but none have the precision of outcome which the obstetrician expects from tests of somatic function.
So ˌpsychoprophyˈlactic a., ˌpsychoprophyˈlactically adv.
1958I. Bonstein Psychoprophylactic Preparation for Painless Childbirth 5 The theory of the superior nervous activity, established by I. P. Pavlov.., is the basis of the psychoprophylactic preparation for painless childbirth. 1960D. A. Myshne tr. Velvovsky's Painless Childbirth through Psychoprophylaxis viii. 199 Most of the time we consider the use of drugs for the purpose of ‘enhancing’ the pain prevention in psychoprophylactically well prepared women unnecessary. 1964New Statesman 4 Dec. 874/3 Women in this country are most carefully taught how to cooperate with the ordinary maternity unit without abandoning their psychoprophylactic training. 1965Observer 1 Aug. 5/6 The French Government is showing great interest in psycho-prophylactic obstetrics. 1972E. D. Bing in N. Morris Psychosomatic Med. in Obstetr. & Gynæcol. 71 Soon our first psychoprophylactically trained women gave birth, and our teachers had become the monitrices in order to assist the young mother in labor and delivery. |