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Autogenic relaxation is known as therapy to treat psychological problems. Many studies have proven the effectiveness of this therapy to overcome physiological as well as psychological problems, including the perinatal period. The aim of this review was to identify autogenic relaxation therapy to overcome perinatal problems. The systematic scoping review method used in this review. The databases were several Indonesian electronic databases; Google scholar and Sinta. The keywords were bilinguals: Indonesia and English. The inclusion criteria of studies were focused on therapy for perinatal problems, research design included true and quasi-experimental, published from 2009 to 2019, full text. Results found that autogenic relaxation therapy in the perinatal period was used to treat post SC pain, anxiety in primigravida pregnant women, anxiety before labor, success of breastfeeding at the beginning of the postpartum period, blood pressure during pregnancy. Health workers need to consider using autogenic relaxation therapy to overcome problems in perinatal patients.