"psychoprophylaxis" meaning in All languages combined

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          "ref": "1957, Briefs - Maternity Center Association, volumes 21-25, page 6",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "2001, Sanjay Datta, Childbirth and Pain Relief: An Anesthesiologist Explains Your Options",
          "text": "Psychoprophylaxis, the preparation of the mind to deal with pain naturally, has and is still being used for pain relief during labor and delivery.",
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          "ref": "2012, Esther Cohen, Knowledge and Pain, page 235",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1909 May 29, International Record of Medicine and General Practice Clinics, volume 89, page 1100",
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          "ref": "1910, Pacific Medical Journal, volume 53, page 84",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1911, J. Thornton Sibley, “Psychoprophylaxis”, in Eclectic Review, volume 14, page 324",
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