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Psychosomatic Medicine 28:651-666 (1966)
© 1966 American Psychosomatic Society

Aversion Therapies in the Treatment of Alcoholism

S. G. LAVERTY M.B., M.R.C.P. (Lond.)1

1 Addiction Research Foundation, Kingston Unit, and the Department of Psychiatry, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada

Aversion therapies have a common hypothesis, namely that unpleasant effects generated in treatment will be reproduced when contact is resumed with alcohol. In practice, however, the formation of a conditioned aversion is not clearly described. A form of conditioning using chemically induced apnea as an unconditioned stimulus is described. The results cannot be explained in terms of straightforward Pavlovian conditioning but do suggest that a traumatic neurosis is produced with alterations in drive level as well as reaction to alcohol.

Results from different forms of aversion therapy are compared and explanations suggested for the wide discrepancies described.






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