Aversion Therapy

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Aversion Therapy

• Michelle Tran

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Definition

• What is Aversion Therapy?
• A conditioning therapy that uses pharmacueticals,
  chemical substances, media, or physical force to
  induce negative sensations such as nasaeu and
  vomiting. Aversion Therapy is usually used to
  cure addictions to drugs, alcohol, cigarettes
  ect.

• Aversion therapy is a type of behavior
  modification in which a patient is subjected
  negative physical stimuli to lessen or
  exterminate unwanted addictions or behaviors

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Aversion Therapy Methods

• Electro Shock Therapy or Faradic Therapy
• Physical force
• Medications such as emetine that induce naseau or
  vomiting
• -disturbing media such as graphic images or loud
  and painful noises
• Unappealing scents or sensations
• witholding of food and other rewards or
  neccesities

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Judge Rotenberg Educational Center in Canton, Mass

• Special needs school that houses students with
  autism or who are developmentally challenged and
  prone to misconduct
• Practices Aversion Therapy
• Benny Walker is a mentally retarded and autistic
  child that has been placed in the Judge Rotenberg
  Educational Center. He has displayed over his
  life violent and disturbing behavior towards
  others and himself. He undergoes Aversion Therapy
  which includes shock therapy or a restriction of
  food or rewards

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Spare the rod spoil the child?

• New Zealand Drury Christian School enforces
  corporal punishment by the parents only in severe
  cases and after a conference with the parents and
  the students. This school faces challenges from
  Parliament.
• North Carolina schools still enforce corporal
  punishment in elementary as well as high schools
• Parents are now facing the threat of a No
  Spanking movement on April 30
• Corporal punishment in schools is illegal in 23
  states and is illegal all together in several
  countries in Europe

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Aversion Therapy in Pop Culture

• Aversion therapy often has a negative stigma and
  is the topic of several movies and dystopian
  novels such as
• -Clockwork Orange
• -1984
• -One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest
• -Quitters Inc.
• -Brave New World
• -Saw series

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Homosexuality and Aversion Therapy

• -Aversion Therapy was and still is used to try to
  cure homosexuality since the 1950s
• - Men were shown erotic images and given emetine
  to induce vomiting, beaten, isolated or
  humiliated to attempt to make them associate
  homosexuality with negative feelings
• -After several weeks or months the patients were
  also urged to pick up prostitutes and consumate
• - Some patients experienced extreme side effects
  from the drugs given, others died due to
  unrelated health problems that were left
  uninvestigated and the rest suffered emotional
  distress during the rest of their life.

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AversionTherapy in Prison

• Aversion therapy is now being tested on sex
  offenders, pedophiles and prisoners with
  homicidal tendencies
• -many parents whose children are imprisoned want
  prisons to offer aversion therapy as an
  alternative to incarceration
• -A large majority of feminists support this
  because they believe its a positive approach
  that allows society to fix not ignore its
  problems, Nell Noddings ethical caring would also
  seem to support this

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Aversion Therapy and
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Critisims

• -Aversion Therapy starts with the assumptions of
  Utilitarianism and Egoism so it reduces human
  motivation to what is pleasurable and what will
  benefit us
• - It lacks respect for the human body and
  undermines free will as well as disregarding the
  physical affects of the treatment for the results
  or the consequences
• -Most that oppose Aversion Therapy simply state
  that it unethical because it is inflicting pain
  upon yourself
• -Others who fiercely oppose Aversion Therapy do
  so because they feel that extending it towards
  the mentally challenged and children undermine
  their natural rights a principle found in our
  Declaration of Independence and the writings of
  Locke and Kant

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