title: [Respiratory autogenic training in preparation for labor (RAT method)].
abstract: Preparation for childbirth with the R.A.T. method involves two therapeutic steps. The first concerns a conditioning relaxation technique derived from hypnosis. Schultz's T.A. and reflexology. There is a series of seven exercises, each of which is supplemented by a revision exercise. The central training exercises coincide with the achievement of sleep breathing, followed by physical deconditioning to external stimuli and semantic deconditioning to uterine contractions. The second step involves a form of analysis designed to examine the mechanism of emotions in a particular situation, marker by the loss of connection between the Ego, the body and the environment, as occurs during group autogenous relaxation.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001326:Autogenic Training; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009321:Natural Childbirth / Q000379:methods*; D011247:Pregnancy
vernacular_title: Il training autogeno respiratorio nella preparazione al parto (metodo R.A.T.)