aversion therapy in a sentence
Examples
- The next time the urge to make a list strikes, I should look through this sheaf of half-baked column ideas as a kind of list-aversion therapy.
- Several people have criticized the level of training required to perform behavior modification procedures, especially those that are restrictive or use aversives, aversion therapy, or punishment protocols.
- Truth, as he should have known, is a sort of aversion therapy, alienating people as much from themselves as from the booze that has muddied their minds.
- One portion described " aversion therapy " for gay men in the South African military that involved giving them electric shocks while they viewed images of naked men.
- Although the aversion therapy has been criticized by some environmental groups as an attempt to change unnaturally the bird's innate curiosity, Wallace said critics are missing the point.
- Deliberate induction of conscious apnea using this drug led to its use as a form of aversion therapy in the 1960s and 1970s in some prison and institutional settings.
- Now rather than getting arrested for taking money to pleasure johns, or customers, she is being paid by the cops to torment johns in a form of hooker-aversion therapy.
- When they're not using the electroshock aversion therapy as foreplay, they sneak out on the " underground homosexual railroad " to boogie their conformist impulses away at a gay bar.
- The plaintiff in the case, Howard E . G . Sawyer, was disabled as a result of what Edwards said was an overdose of a drug used in alcohol-aversion therapy.
- At the time, homosexuality was considered by the medical community as a psychiatric condition, and aversion therapy was one of the more common methods used to try to cure it.