2.4.1.3 - Aversion therapy + Eysenck

Cards (4)

  • Eysenck's personality theory can be applied to the treatment of sex offenders
  • Offenders undergoing aversion therapy are asked to think of an unacceptable sexual fantasy and then are administered an electric shock as a punishment to associate the fantasies with punishment and pain
  • Aversion therapy has had very limited success in the past
  • Aversion therapy was attempted to be used on gay people and has been criticised as a human rights abuse