0 a method of treating habits or types of behaviour that are not wanted or not acceptable, by causing the patient to connect them with bad feelings:
Despite what many people think, aversion therapy is no longer used by professional psychologists in this country.
Unmistakably, a form of aversion therapy was being trialled here, although the calibration of the shock lent his system a kind of scientific credibility.
Perhaps it was a form of aversion therapy, given its record and the electorate's recent judgment on it.
I recall that he told me that aversion therapy made no difference to him.
Aversion therapy works on changing positive emotional associations with the sight, smell and taste of alcohol or other drugs.
At the age of 12, his father gave him a cigar to smoke as aversion therapy.
The use of aversion therapy remains controversial, and is an ethical issue related to the professional practice of behavior analysis.
Effeminate boys were forced to undergo aversion therapy.
Aversion therapy and punishment is a technique in which an aversive (painful or unpleasant) stimulus is used to decrease unwanted behaviors from occurring.
