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Aversion therapy & eysecks theory
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Aversion therapy
Applies
Eysenck's personality
theory to the treatment of
sex offenders
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Eysenck's theory
Criminals tend to be strongly
extravert
and
neurotic
This makes them
harder
to condition because they are more resistant to learning through
punishment
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Aversion therapy procedure
1. Offenders asked to think about an
unacceptable
sexual
fantasy
until aroused
2. Strongly
aversive stimulus
(e.g. electric shock, nausea-inducing drug) administered
3. Procedure repeated until offender associates
deviant
arousal with
stimulus
4. Aim is to stop the
thoughts
and thus stop the
offending
behaviour
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Aversive stimuli
Electric
shock
Nausea-inducing
drug
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Aversion therapy has had very limited success, usually only
short
term, and its use in attempting to 'cure' gay people has also been criticised as a
human rights
abuse
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Peter Price had aversion therapy to try to
'cure'
him from being
gay
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Aversion therapy for Peter Price
1.
Shown magazines
designed to arouse him
2. Given
electric
shock or
vomit-inducing
drugs
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Roger
, the nurse who administered the aversion therapy: 'Described it as "dirty,
filthy
, grabbing"'
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Peter agreed to have the "
treatment
" despite it being ludicrous, inhumane, and the
cruelest
form of torture
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Aversion therapy is used
To make the person feel
disgusted
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Aversion therapy used with gay men
1. Shown
arousing
magazines
2. Given
electric
shock
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Peter's biggest fear during the treatment was whether he was going to come out
alive
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Peter's therapy lasted
72
hours
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Roger
had the power to decide if someone was given
aversion therapy
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Roger
did not think the aversion therapy treatment was
effective
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