Aversion therapy is a psychological treatment that aims to decrease a person's liking or desire for something by pairing it with an unpleasant experience. It is used to create a negative association with a particular behavior or object, making the person less likely to engage in it in the future.
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It's
aversion therapy for the masses, and its applications are endless... if you are brave enough to try it!
And in an editorial earlier this year in the journal Medscape General Medicine, Professor of Psychiatry Steven Moffic proposed the use of
aversion therapy involving «distressing images of the projected ravages of global warming» to encourage responsible environmental behaviour among sceptics (Moffic 2.9.2007).
The test, a kind
of aversion therapy for mosquitoes to see if they can associate smells with bad experiences, was reported at the annual Entomological Society of America meeting.
Role: Help clients achieve and maintain abstinence, reestablish their lives and use healthy coping skills through commonly
used aversion therapy, solution - focused brief therapy and social skills training.
No mere accumulation of facts can tell us how to decide on the definition of clinical death, whether a human fetus is a human being,
whether aversion therapy for homosexuals is good, or whether the risks of nuclear power outweigh the benefits.
There was also
shame aversion therapy, first used in the 1930s, which involved continually subjecting the patient to public shame or humiliation over his same - sex arousal.
It is important that these devises should be pre - programmed before use and this should be done by a qualified behaviourist who understands how to program
noise aversion therapy devices.
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seat aversion therapy.
Throughout the 1960s and into the mid-70s, treatments in the U.S. mostly consisted
of aversion therapy — teaching subjects to associate a strong feeling of dislike or disgust with same - sex attraction until the attraction disappeared.
Every four years, Americans subject themselves to the collective equivalent of
the aversion therapy experienced by Malcolm McDowell's character in A Clockwork Orange — our national eyelids pinched open by twenty - four - seven news coverage, online aggregation sites, social media, neighborhood conversations, and even your children's homework assignments.
When Alex is arrested he volunteers for a new «
aversion therapy» with the end result that violence and sex now make him physically ill.
We say: «The whole thing becomes
an aversion therapy chamber, and makes you never want to eat a slice of Battenburg cake ever again.
There's Andreas Ernst, who compares the psychology of sceptics to that of rats, and Steven Moffic, who thinks
that aversion therapy involving the use of «distressing images of the projected ravages of global warming» can cure sceptics of their sociopathy.
Successful outcomes have been attributed to intervention,
aversion therapy, stress management, solution - focused brief therapy, and social skills training.