Painless childbirth through psychoprophylaxis : lectures for obstetricians / I. Velvovsky, K. Platonov, V. Ploticher and E. Shugom.

"The present edition is an English translation of the book published in Russian by the Medical Literature State Publishing House (MEDGIZ) under the editorship of Professor A. Nikolayev in 1954. The book contains the lectures delivered by its authors at the courses for obstetricians and gynaecologists conducted at the Kharkov Institute of Advanced Medical Training in accordance with a decision of the U.S.S.R. Ministry of Public Health in 1951. The English edition of the book owes its appearance to the extensive interest our psychoprophylactic method of painless childbirth has evoked in many countries and the desire of numerous foreign readers to acquaint themselves with our views and conceptions." -- From Introduction.