psychoprophylaxis

Example Sentences

• "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."
• "Psychoprophylaxis, the preparation of the mind to deal with pain naturally, has and is still being used for pain relief during labor and delivery."
• "Psychoprophylaxis enjoyed a meteoric rise in the USSR and beyond, Vel'vovskii developed the method in 1948-1948, and it became national policy in the USSR in early 1951, when the Ministry of Public Health launched a campaign for its promotion. Psychoprophylaxis received the state's enthusiastic support because it required relatively little financial investment, had the added appeal of being legitimated on the basis of work by Russia's famous scientist, and supported the regime's pro-natalist agenda."
• "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."
• "Just as psychotherapy denotes not treatment of the mind, but treatment by psychic means, so I shall use the word psychoprophylaxis not to signify the prevention of psychic disorders, but to mean the preservation of health by psychic means."
• "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."