psychoprophylaxis

Lamaze was so impressed by what he witnessed that after he returned to France, he devoted the rest of his life to promoting psychoprophylaxis.

There he observed a birth using psychoprophylaxis, which had been developed primarily by Soviet psychotherapist I.Z. Velvovskii of Kharkov, Ukraine.

She wrote a book, "Thank You, Dr. Lamaze," and in 1960, she and Ms. Bing, a physical therapist, organized the American Socety for Psychoprophylaxis in Obstetrics.

Fernand Lamaze (1891 - 1957) was a French obstetrician, most famous as the popularizer of psychoprophylaxis, a method of childbirth preparation and pain management that has come to bear his name (the Lamaze technique).

Proponents of Behavior Modification, Assertiveness Training, Auto-relaxation, Progressive (Systematic) Desensitization & Psychoprophylaxis have all used principles and applications proposed, developed or applied by Salter, whether or not they acknowledge that reality."

"We make a big point in our classes of saying, 'If you want medication it is up to you, but make an informed decision,' " said Margaret Ames, associate executive director of the American Society for Psychoprophylaxis, an organization that has trained 9,000 teachers in the Lamaze method of natural childbirth since 1965.