University of Pittsburgh study utilizing shocks for aversion therapy.

Date
1974
Type
Academic / Technical Report
Source
Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry
Non-LDS
Hearsay
Direct
Secondary
Reference

Lynn P. Rehm, and Ronald H. Rozensky. "Multiple behavior therapy techniques with a homosexual client: A case study." Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry 5, no. 1 (1974): 53-57.

Scribe/Publisher
Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry
People
Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry
Audience
Reading Public
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Transcription

In three sessions the client saw 140 presentations of male slides, received a total of 52 shocks and reached criterion on four of the five slide sets. At this point he reported that the slides were no longer attractive and that he was not noticing attractive males on the street.But since he was still experiencing frequent homosexual fantasies with no apparent external stimulus, the procedure was modified to a paradigm more like Marks and Gelder's(1967). He was instructed to visualize specific fantasies and to signal when he had a clear image, whereupon the therapist administered a shock of short duration on this signal. After two sessions of this the client reported that these fantasies had essentially disappeared.

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