Banstead Hospital utilization of electric shocks in gay aversion therapy.
John G Thorpe, Edward Schmidt, and David Castell, "A comparison of positive and negative (aversive) conditioning in the treatment of homosexuality," Behaviour Research and Therapy 1, nos. 2-4 (1963): 359
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The negative or aversion trials were achieved by illuminating one of the patient’s own photographs of male nudes (both adult and younger males) and delivering a strong electric shock to the patient’s bare feet through the grid.
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