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 Aversion therapy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
One patient said of aversion therapy, "Aversion therapy gave me an aversion to therapy!" See antipsychiatry.
Aversion therapy can take many forms, a few examples being: Placing unpleasant-tasting chemicals on the nails to discourage nail-chewing, giving alcoholics drugs that make the intake of alcohol unpleasant, or simply scolding a child while they are doing wrong.
The movie Latter Days includes a scene in which a character is subjected to aversion therapy in an attempt to change his sexual orientation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aversion_therapy   (525 words)

  
 Classical conditioning - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Therapies associated with classical conditioning are aversion therapy, flooding, systematic desensitization, and implosion therapy.
In human psychology, implications for therapies and treatments using classical conditioning differ from operant conditioning.
Classical conditioning is short-term, usually requiring less time with therapists and less effort from patients, unlike humanistic therapies.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_conditioning   (788 words)

  
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Family therapy is one type of ______ therapy.
Reinforcement therapy, one form of behavior therapy, is based on the assumption that maladaptive behavior is learned, and therefore reinforcement can modify the behavior.
Insight therapy is largely based on the assumption that the patient behaves in unhealthy ways because he or she does not adequately understand the motivation underlying the behavior.
http://www.dushkin.com/connectext/psy/ch14/s14.txt   (3141 words)

  
 Reparative therapy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Modern reparative therapy is a re-reading of the earlier, psychological research and stems from the clinical work and theories of Elizabeth Moberly, Ph.D., a British theologian and research psychologist, during the early 1980s.
Finally, they criticise the way reparative therapies define success: many of their clients appear to still feel homosexual attraction or their orientation appears to not have been changed and the client is merely celibate.
Conversion therapies are also advocated by various religious family values groups such as the Family Research Council and Focus on the Family.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reparative_therapy   (3615 words)

  
 Aversion therapy
Aversion therapy - Behaviour modification using noxious stimuli as a means to unlearning an undesired response pattern.
http://www.psybox.com/web_dictionary/aversiontherapy.htm   (17 words)

  
 glbtq >> social sciences >> Aversion Therapy
Aversion therapy is a form of behavior modification that employs unpleasant and sometimes painful stimuli in an effort to help a patient unlearn socially unacceptable or harmful behavior.
Many psychiatrists abandoned the use of aversion therapy not out of any ethical concern for their patients or because they thought such treatment was inhumane, but because they thought it was ineffective.
Glbtq family therapy is a relatively new field that merges gay-affirmative therapy with family systems theory; its goal is to help glbtq people create and maintain healthy families.
http://www.glbtq.com/social-sciences/aversion_therapy.html   (1339 words)

  
 Aversion Therapy - Hypnotic World Psychology
Aversion therapy's long-term success in treating patients is questionable; patients may appear to be treated by therapy, but once out of the view of doctors, where the deterrent drugs or electric shocks are removed, they may feel able to return to their addictions or undesirable behavior.
Aversion therapy uses the behavioral approach principles that new behavior can be 'learnt' in order to overcome addictions, obsessions or, as demonstrated in Kubrick film A Clockwork Orange, violent behavior.
Aversion therapy has endured much criticism in previous decades in its use in abusing patients.
http://psychology.hypnoticworld.com/behavior/aversiontherapy.php   (364 words)

  
 Visit to the dentist
The subject was aversion therapy, a two-part course on Punishment and Treatment.
The fact is that aversion therapy is used for the patients’ own good.
Eysenck outlined the principles of aversion therapy, which, he explained, were based on Pavlov’s experiments on conditioned reflexes.
http://www.tatchell.freeserve.co.uk/psychiatry/dentist.htm   (1093 words)

  
 Aversion Therapy
Aversion therapy for alcohol dependence is a very old therapy which appears to be very effective.
Emetine, Faradic Aversion Therapy Good Long-Term Success: A sample of 600 patients in a multimodal treatment program of aversion therapy and narcotherapy had a follow-up of averaging 15 months later by an independent research organization of 427 patients (71.2%).
Emetine, Faradic Aversion Therapy Better: 249 inpatients treated in multimodal program for alcoholism including aversion therapy with 12 months of follow-up were compared on 17 variables with matched patients from a national treatment outcome registry.
http://www.modern-psychiatry.com/aversion_therapy.htm   (2285 words)

  
 Behavioral Therapy
In aversion therapy, a client learns to associate negative consequences with a stimulus that was associated with positive consequences before.
Behavioral therapy attacks symptoms not underlying causes, overtly directs clients to change their behavior, and relies on the science of psychology more so than other therapies.
Counterconditioniong, aversive therapy, extinction, flooding, and implosive therapy all derive from classical conditioning.
http://peace.saumag.edu/faculty/Kardas/Courses/GPWeiten/C15Therapy/BehTher.html   (270 words)

  
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Aversion therapy has been used to treat two classes of behavior.
In aversion therapy the maladaptive behaviors can be paired with....
While consequential deceleration therapy delivers an undesirable stimulus immediately after the client performs the maladaptive behavior, Aversion therapy delivers the undesirable stimulus....
http://www.psychology.eku.edu/BEAL/psy-406/sg2.html   (1052 words)

  
 Drug and Alcohol Rehab Program: Aversion Therapy
Drug and alcohol rehab aversion therapy, pioneered by hospital founder Charles Shadel, is based on the principles of classical conditioning of the subconscious mind responsible for addiction.
The doctors and nurses providing the aversion treatment monitor the level of aversion continuously through treatment and in the follow-up sessions.
Aversion conditioning works directly at the brain's core (brain stem) to enact an automatic or subconscious aversive motor response.
http://www.schickhospital.com/aversiontherapy.asp   (552 words)

  
 Aversion Therapy for Chemical Dependency
Aversion therapy with pentothal interview is provided within a comprehensive treatment program that includes detoxification, counseling, addiction education, and introduction to a 12 step program for follow-up care.
Long-term abstinence from alcohol in patients receiving aversion therapy as part of a multimodal inpatient program.
The components of standard outpatient substance abuse therapy consist of individual, group and family psychotherapy, relapse prevention therapy, and introduction to a 12-step program for follow-up.
http://www.regence.com/trgmedpol/mentalHealth/mh16.html   (720 words)

  
 aversion therapy - definition of aversion therapy by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia.
behavior modification, behavior therapy - psychotherapy that seeks to extinguish or inhibit abnormal or maladaptive behavior by reinforcing desired behavior and extinguishing undesired behavior
A type of behavior therapy designed to modify undesirable or antisocial habits or addictions by creating a strong association with a disagreeable or painful stimulus.
aversion therapy - any technique of behavior modification that uses unpleasant stimuli in a controlled fashion to alter behavior in a therapeutic way; primarily used for alcoholism or drug abuse (but with little success)
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/aversion+therapy   (150 words)

  
 Stimulants
Cognitive-behavioral therapy and faradic aversion therapy have been used with some success, although better research is needed.
Disulfiram and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Helps in Randomized Study: In a study of 121 cocaine-dependent individuals randomly assigned to receive disulfiram or a placebo, in addition to undergoing one of two behavioral therapy interventions, participants received either cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) or interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT) in individual sessions during the 12-week project.
All patients also received manual-guided, twice-weekly cognitive behavioral therapy.
http://www.modern-psychiatry.com/new_page_49.htm   (3041 words)

  
 aversion therapy --  Encyclopædia Britannica
In the electrical therapy, the patient is given a lightly painful shock whenever the undesirable...
Herbal therapy is an alternative medicine that can be effective for pain relief.
Monthly journal promoting the application of cognitive behavior therapy in the treatment of psychological disorders.
http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9011422   (787 words)

  
 Aversion Therapy
Arguing that "aversion therapy is used for the patient's own good", Eysenck said it can "change the emotions, where the person himself cannot change them of his own free will...By associating emotions with pain or fear, the emotional response can be de-conditioned".
In such circumstances, his decision to undergo aversion therapy was hardly the free choice that doctors allege.
He had been given apomorphine as an aversion therapy treatment which was designed to turn him straight.
http://www.petertatchell.net/psychiatry/aversion.htm   (1308 words)

  
 MHAMic - Ethical Issues - Aversion Therapy and Sex-drive Reducing Drugs
This book presents a 1977 statement from the Association for the Advancement of Behavior Therapy intended to insure ethical use of behavior therapy techniques such as aversion therapy and covert sensitization.
Fog, A., "Paraphilias and Therapy," Nordisk Sexologi, vol.
Based on studies of behavior therapy and his own experience working with patients who have experienced it, sociologist Agner Fog addresses three ethical problems: the use of psychiatry to enforce social conformity, the potential for psychological trauma, and the attempt to control the patient’s mind.
http://www.mhamic.org/ethics/aversiondrugs.htm   (346 words)

  
 Change of sexual orientation : Review of the literature — Behavior modification
Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry.3: 299 -231.
METHOD: Anticipatory avoidance conditioning, aversion relief conditioning therapy.
This mode of treatment seemingly a forerunner of modern behavioral therapy, was reported to achieve 37.5 per cent cures and another 34 per cent improvement.
http://www.fathersforlife.org/dale/change3.html   (3010 words)

  
 Schick Shadel Hospital
Chemical aversion therapy was shown to be associated with improved abstinence measures.
One group was treated at Schick with aversion therapy as part of a multimodal treatment program.
One of the presumptions that have been repeated often in the literature is that the results of aversion therapy programs may be better because the patients are from a higher socioeconomic class and have higher functioning to start with.
http://www.schick-shadel.com/research3.asp   (6941 words)

  
 Aversion Therapies Such as Electric Shocks and Rapid Smoking Appear to Provide Little Benefit to Those Who Wish to Stop ...
Essentially, aversion therapy pairs the pleasurable experience of smoking a cigarette with some unpleasant stimulus.
Other results indicate aversion therapies, such as rapid smoking, are effective only 2 percent of the time, a result deemed to be not worth the time or expense.
Most studies show such aversion therapies have no real effect in the effort to stop smoking.
http://www.stopthesmoke.com/smoking-aversion.shtml   (387 words)

  
 FAA Aviation Aversion Therapy
Aversion therapy is sometimes used when there are associated behavior patterns that are pleasant but might be regarded by a third party as undesirable.
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has come up with its form of aversion therapy.
After all if one's looking for a needle in a haystack, he need not examine every straw.
http://www.gmu.edu/departments/economics/wew/articles/03/FAA.html   (588 words)

  
 Schick Shadel Hospital
Research on aversion therapy constitutes one of the largest literatures in the field.
A Methodological Analysis", 1999, in which 30 types of therapy for alcohol/drug treatment were compared based on a cumulative evidence score from the number of both positive and negative studies, a mean quality score for modality, and a mean severity score for modality.
A wide variety of external links to medical research on addiction and aversion therapy are provided on our Links Page.
http://www.schick-shadel.com/research.asp   (1025 words)

  
 MHAMic - Aversion Therapy (Council on Scientific Affairs)
The purpose of aversion therapy is to reduce unwanted or dangerous behavior by pairing it with unpleasant sensations or punishment.
Citation: Council on Scientific Affairs of the American Medical Association, “Aversion therapy,” Journal of the American Medical Association, vol.
It is based on principles of learning theory and behavior modification.
http://www.mhamic.org/sources/council.htm   (565 words)

  
 Sound aversion therapy applied to behavioural problems or training in dogs.
Sound aversion therapy applied to behavioural problems or training in dogs.
Shock therapy is only justified when all else has failed and the problem is so serious that the dog's life would be at risk if not solved.
Please note that electric shock therapy (used in shock collars) is also aversion therapy, but please never use this technique.
http://www.dog-training-behaviour.com/sound_aversion_therapy.html   (566 words)

  
 FARADISM.NET
Aversion therapy - cure by punishment - is the ASSOCIATION of some unpleasantness with an unwanted behavior in an attempt to modify or eliminate that behavior.
The most thorough follow-up studies of people treated with aversion therapy was carried out in the late 1940s.
Behavior therapy, with its more specific and limited objectives, is said to take less time and money and therefore is beneficial to a greater number of people.
http://proper.itgo.com/ThePunishmentCure.html   (1457 words)

  
 Schick Shadel Hospital
Abstract-A sample of 200 patients who had been treated for alcoholism in a multimodal inpatient program that used aversion therapy as a treatment component was selected for outcome evaluation.
Some of these deficiencies are inherent in the nature of the treatment process (e.g., it is inherently impossible to have a double blind study when one component of treatment is aversion therapy).
Lemere, F., and Voegtlin, W. Conditioned reflex therapy of alcoholic addiction: Specificity of conditioning against chronic alcoholism.
http://www.schickhospital.com/research4.asp   (3715 words)

  
 Electrical aversion therapy with alcoholics: a comparative follow-up study -- Glover and McCue 130 (3): 279 -- The ...
Electrical aversion therapy with alcoholics: a comparative follow-up study
reference to the application of aversion therapy to alcoholism.
Electrical aversion therapy with alcoholics: a comparative follow-up study -- Glover and McCue 130 (3): 279 -- The British Journal of Psychiatry
http://bjp.rcpsych.org/cgi/content/abstract/130/3/279   (159 words)

  
 Healing Homosexuality Through Reparative Therapy
There are two methods that are still in use by which therapists and lay groups attempt to change sexual orientation: Reparative Therapy is an experimental and controversial secular therapeutic technique.
Many groups that practice these therapies estimate their "cure" rate at 70% or more.
There are many areas of human knowledge (medical science, physics, psychology, natural science, etc.) where conservative Christians hold views that differ from those of the rest of society.
http://www.religioustolerance.org/hom_repar.htm   (419 words)

  
 Aversion Therapy
These people who perpetrate reparative therapy are causing these types of explosive behavior, so on whose hands is the blood and the deeper question is, who will wash it off?
"The person who is in recovery from reparative therapy, [needs to] find thematic material that validates their story and their lives, as far as being gay is concerned, some type of validation that really supports who they are in the healing process."
He is sitting in an office on the campus of BYU, where his counselor has attached electrodes to his hands, arms, torso and genitals.
http://www.geocities.com/davidmaus/lvshock.html   (2953 words)

  
 American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse: Production And Prediction Of Conditioned Alcohol Aversion - Pharmacological ...
Taste aversion conditioning, the process by which alcohol aversions are established, is a phylogentically old and highly efficient form of learning (5).
Thus, taste aversion research supports the use of nausea as a biologically appropriate unconditioned stimulus for induction of conditioned aversion to alcohol (5).
Cannon and Baker (13) randomly assigned 20 alcohol-dependent subjects to a PAT, shock aversion therapy, or control group.
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0978/is_3_27/ai_77480938   (983 words)

  
 SMOKERS STOP SHOP - everything for the would-be non-smoker widest range of smoking cessation aids on the web REALLY ...
NRT patches and gum are the most popular methods for stopping smoking but may not be the most effective techniques/ remedies/ systems.Different kinds of aversion therapy are outlined.
NRT patches and gum are the most popular methods for stopping smoking but may not be the most effective techniques/ remedies/ systems.
http://www.smokersstopshop.co.uk/smokecontrol.htm   (1769 words)

  
 RemedyFind: patient ratings of Schick Shadel for Nicotine
Stop smoking programs like that offered by Schick Shadel use aversion therapy to pair the pleasurable stimulus of smoking a cigarette with some unpleasant stimulus.
The analysis concludes, "The existing studies provide insufficient evidence to determine the efficacy of rapid smoking, or whether there is a dose-response to aversive stimulation.
Smoking Cessation Programs: Schick Shadel etc. (Aversion Therapy)
http://www.remedyfind.com/rem.asp?ID=6835   (569 words)

  
 Ex-Gay Watch: Aversion Therapy Survivor Reports on Love Won Out in Vancouver
Toronto Star reporter David Graham reports from the Love Won Out conference over the weekend, comparing and contrasting it with his experience as a voluntary electric shock aversion therapy patient 30 years ago.
Posted by: raj at May 4, 2004 09:06 AM Interesting article, by the way.
http://www.exgaywatch.com/blog/archives/2004/05/aversion_therap.html   (786 words)

  
 aversion. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
A fixed, intense dislike; repugnance: formed an aversion to crowds.
http://www.bartleby.com/61/58/A0545800.html   (109 words)

  
 MHAMic - Treatment Methods - Aversion Therapy
Another variation, shame aversion therapy, involves subjecting the patient to public shame or humiliation in conjunction with his deviant behavior.
Researchers say aversion therapy seems not to interfere with normal sexual functioning.
Only a few cases of shame therapy are reported in the literature; one reported that a transvestite attempted suicide after a treatment session.
http://www.mhamic.org/treatment/aversion.htm   (477 words)

  
 Chapter5 Treatment and environments
Aversion therapy and positive reinforcement are discarded because they work with physical rewards or punishments.
The treatment used was chosen from the treatments described in the section about behavioral therapy.
To make sure that it is the Virtual Reality that helps the subject and not the relaxation, systematic desensitization is discarded.
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/gvu/people/Masters/Rob.Kooper/Thesis/Chapter5.html   (1532 words)

  
 q online - NEWS: NCGLE release info on aversion therapy
Kevin Mann, a survivor of aversion therapy more than 20 years ago, took the opportunity to express his support for survivors.
An emotional Mann said after being conscripted in the army in 1970 he was approached by a Methodist minister who referred him to the military hospital for psychological assessment.
q online - NEWS: NCGLE release info on aversion therapy
http://www.q.co.za/news/2000/08/000816-ncglepress.htm   (776 words)

  
 Breillat Films As Aversion Therapy
French sex as a form of aversion therapy
Should Catherine Breillat ever tire of making dull pornography, and there's sadly no indication of that happening anytime soon, a career in aversion therapy awaits her.
I see her filling the shoes of the attending nurses in a real-life recreation of the behaviour-modification scene in A Clockwork Orange, in which a porn-loving felon, his eyes clamped open, is forced to watch degrading and violent sex films until he literally retches at the thought of seeing another naked, throbbing organ.
http://www.fradical.com/Breillat_films_as_aversion_therapy.htm   (1159 words)

  
 Aversion Cartoons
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Copyright in this image is owned by the original artist, rights to reproduce or use the image may be obtained from www.CartoonStock.com.
http://www.cartoonstock.com/directory/a/aversion.asp   (239 words)

  
 Creepy crawlies of the 'left' and the need for aversion therapy Samizdata.net
Creepy crawlies of the 'left' and the need for aversion therapy
Creepy crawlies of the 'left' and the need for aversion therapy
Personally speaking it is going to take a great deal of patient aversion therapy in order to let one of them crawl over my arm
http://www.samizdata.net/blog/archives/001561.html   (518 words)

  
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The practice and ethics of sexual orientation conversion therapy.
Yet, there is no increased interest in the opposite sex.
After going through aversive therapy, many patients do indeed show less of an interest in their own gender (although this may be short-lived).
http://www.qrd.org/qrd/religion/anti/exgay/aversion.therapy.references   (476 words)

  
 As for my psychotherapy - ten years of aversion therapy backfired and I
As for my psychotherapy - ten years of aversion therapy backfired and I
I wholy lack mamby-pamby feelings for the incompetent - if the Lurie
http://www.anvari.org/fortune/Mav_Flame/20.html   (362 words)

  
 rediff.com: Movies: Gaspar Noe's Irreversible works as an aversion therapy
Gaspar Noe's Irreversible works as an aversion therapy
rediff.com: Movies: Gaspar Noe's Irreversible works as an aversion therapy
At Cannes, many walked out of the screening of his film which, depending on who you are listening to, is either a pervert work pretending to be art or a scary artistic work, which 39-year-old Noe says can also work as an 'aversion therapy'.
http://www.rediff.com/movies/2002/sep/16gasp.htm   (530 words)

  
 US CATHOLIC NEWS - Against Baby Aversion Therapy
The promoters of baby aversion therapy, with the very best of intentions, wish you to repress this vision, lest it tempt you to sin (or worse, to behavior that costs the taxpayers money).
US CATHOLIC NEWS - Against Baby Aversion Therapy
But all that is human is because men and women gave themselves to each other and to the future in this way.
http://www.catholic.net/us_catholic_news/template_article.phtml?channel_id=1&article_id=3115   (1889 words)

  
 Halfbakery: Mislaying Aversion Therapy
I had aversion therapy once, but I mislaid it.
How does it know the difference between "I forgot it" and "I'm putting it down because I don't need it right now"?
http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/Mislaying_20Aversion_20Therapy   (200 words)

  
 aversion therapy - Glossary of Terms Consulting Mental Health
A behaviour therapy procedure in which associated with undesirable behaviour are paired with a painful or unpleasant stimulus, resulting in the suppression of the undesirable behaviour.
aversion therapy - Glossary of Terms Consulting Mental Health
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http://psych.consultinghealth.com/glossary_detail.php?id=46   (53 words)

  
 Gay News From 365Gay.com
Kueck called the attempt to get the penguins to mate with females a form of "aversion therapy", a practice that has never worked successfully in humans.
Nevertheless she said that another attempt will be made in the spring of 2006.
http://www.365gay.com/newscon05/02/021105penguins.htm   (419 words)

  
 Aversion therapy
Enclosed heads and hats page is a form of aversion therapy for Mr Wayne Kerr who is currently unable to visit any department store where plastic mannequins are used.
We are starting with heads and will be moving on to other mannequin body parts in the near future.
http://www.kamikazeroberts.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/aversion_therapy.htm   (48 words)

  
 Aversion treatment alcoholism Information
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http://alcoholism.1wonderfulsite18.info/alcoholism-stage/aversion-treatment-alcoholism.html   (337 words)

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