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PubMed1977

[Apparative aversive therapy in combination with verbal suggestions in special obsessional syndromes (initial investigation)].

The author restricts the use of aversion therapy by means of deliberate production of pain to obsessional, especially therapy-resistant disturbances of a permanent nature, with consideration being, of course, given to ethical factors. Experiences worthy of generalization are derived from methodically varied courses of treatment, bringing out suggestive moments subliminally involved in any therapeutical situation and also specifically used by the therapist. In addition, the author emphasizes the need for simultaneously developing, besides aversion therapy, positive attitudes and behavior patterns.

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PubMed1977

Electrical aversion therapy with alcoholics: a comparative follow-up study.

A group of alcoholics treated by partially reinforced electrical escape conditioning were found to have a significantly better outcome on follow-up than a selected control group, who showed a parallel level of motivation, and were treated by conventional methods. No sex differences in outcome were found for either group. In the experimental group, better prognosis was associated with higher social class and older age, and poorer prognosis with single marital status. There were no variations in outcome for age in the control group. In the age range 20-40 aversion therapy showed no better results than conventional therapies, but with subjects above this age range it was very significantly superior. The results are discussed with reference to the application of aversion therapy to alcoholism.

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PubMed1976

Is a homosexual orientation irreversible?

In four studies homosexual patients were randomly allocated to receive either different forms of aversive therapy; or aversive therapy or a positive conditioning procedure. Before and after therapy the patients' sexual orientation was determined by measuring their penile volume responses to moving pictures of nude men and women. The aversive therapies produced reduction in homosexual feelings and behaviour. In the fourth study the reduction was significantly greater following the aversive compared with the positive conditioning procedure. No significant change in measured sexual orientation occurred in the patients who received aversive therapy compared with those who received positive conditioning. The measured sexual orientation of the homosexual patients after treatment differed significantly from that of heterosexual patients who received aversive therapy for sexual anomalies.

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PubMed1978

[Anti-smoking therapy (author's transl)].

This is a comprehensive survey of the different anti-smoking therapies indicating the difficulty of comparing one method to another. It points out the minimum standard to be set for anti-smoking therapies. Reference is also made to advantages and disadvantages of the different kinds of treatment. The account of anti-smoking therapies includes hypnosis, aversion therapies, anti-smoking clinics, medical treatment, polyeclectrical and other methods of therapy. Detailed description is especially to be found of the behavior therapy. Eleven different techniques of the multimodal behavior treatment are presented. Finally consideration is given to the need of anti-smoking therapies, prevention from smoking as well as prophylaxis against relapse.

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PubMed1977

Aversive behavior therapy for chronic stomach pain: a case study.

A combined behavioral-psychodynamic treatment for severe, chronic stomach pain has been presented. In the case discussed, neither psychotherapy nor behavior therapy alone was successful in dealing with the patient's somatized depression. Aversive conditioning was credited with eliminating verbal report of pain and subjective sensation of chronic gastric pain. Simultaneous with the reduction in pain, however, the patient became increasingly depressed. Analytically oriented psychotherapy was instrumental in resolving the depression.

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PubMed1979

[Position of behavior therapy among the psychiatric therapies].

In the fourth table, we have classified the most important measures of behaviour therapy: desensitivization, operating conditioning, aversive therapy and negative learning. These courses of action can play an important role in psychiatry and can enrich the therapeutic repertory through their rational use, placed in a general plan of treatment. Moreover, these methods are usually excluded from the tought theories and they do not see in the neurotic troubles a consequence of unconscious conflicts; these conflicts must become conscious again, but they must appear, then, as the result of the learning of bad behaviour.

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