Aversion therapy

Aversion therapy is a form of psychiatric treatment in which the patient is exposed to a stimulus while simultaneously being hurt or made ill.

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This conditioning causes the patient to associate the stimulus with unpleasant sensations.

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Aversion therapy can take many forms, a few examples being:

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Placing unpleasant-tasting chemicals on the nails to discourage nail-chewing, giving alcoholics drugs that make the intake of alcohol unpleasant, or simply punishing a child immediately after they do wrong.

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