Aversion Therapy

[Harry Lime]

Aversion therapy is a form of psychological treatment in which the patient is exposed to a stimulus while simultaneously being subjected to some form of discomfort, and this thread is going to give it to you in spades!

If you need help to cure your mongering instincts or a push to get you on the next plane to The Far East, this thread will do it for you.

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This conditioning is intended to cause the patient to associate the stimulus with unpleasant sensations in order to stop the specific behavior.

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Aversion therapies can take many forms, for example: placing unpleasant-tasting substances on the fingernails to discourage nail-chewing; pairing the use of an emetic with the experience of alcohol; or pairing behavior with electric shocks of various intensities.

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The definitiona above and below are courtesy of Wikipedia.

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This form of treatment has been in continuous operation since 1932. The treatment is discussed in the Principles of Addiction Medicine, Chapter 8, published by the American Society of Addiction Medicine in 2003.

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Aversion therapy works on changing positive emotional associations with the sight, smell and taste of alcohol or other drugs. Follow up studies done at 6 and 12 months on populations matched on 17 baseline variables shows that aversion therapy resulted in significantly better abstinence rates.

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There was no increase in leaving the hospital against medical advice in patients seeking aversion therapy compared to patients in non-aversion programs

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Aversion therapy is also used in the self-help community to treat minor behavioral issues with the aid of an elastic band, the user or patient would snap the elastic band on his/her wrist while an undesirable thought/behavior presents itself.

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(One could use a condom, instead of an elastic band)

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In case you are wondering, every single photo posted on this thread (by me) will be a TS or TV P4P Escort, currently advertising and working as an Escort in the UK.

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Ir would help and speed matters along (and give you dozens of photos of each of these "Treasures") if the Forum Software could be updated so that multiple photos with no maximum could be posted each time.

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One has to commend these "Girls" for using real pictures and not relying on photoshop to produce more attractive fakes of themselves.

So, they may not get our business, but they do dererve some respect.

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But, I digressed ...... back to Wikepedia:

Since 1994, the American Psychological Association (APA) has declared that aversion therapy is a dangerous practice that does not work.

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Since 2006, the use of aversion therapy to treat homosexuality has been in violation of the codes of conduct and professional guidelines of the APA and American Psychiatric Association.

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The use of aversion therapy to treat homosexuality is illegal in some countries. The standard in psychotherapy in America and Europe is currently gay affirmative psychotherapy. Guidelines for gay affirmative psychotherapy can be found at APA.

(Having trouble posting and can't correct errors in posting - the software really does need an update)