Subjective and penile plethysmography responses to aversion therapy for homosexuality: A partial replication |
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Authors: | N McConaghy MD D Proctor LRCP R Barr MB |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Psychiatry, Prince Henry Hospital, Little Bay, Sydney, Australia |
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Abstract: | Forty patients were randomly assigned to receive apomorphine aversion or avoidance conditioning to reduce homosexual impulses.
Prior to and following treatment, they were shown a film containing pictures of nude women preceded by pictures of a red circle
and of nude men preceded by a green triangle. At 2 weeks following treatment, the patients showed significantly less penile
volume increase to the pictures of men and penile volume decrease to the pictures of women, but no penile volume increase
to the pictures of women. The changes in penile volume response of each patient correlated with the reduction in homosexual
feeling he reported at follow-up 6 months later. There was no weakening of the change in penile volume responses at this time.
Some statistically significant relationships were found between various measures of each patient's response to treatment and
conditionability, but these were not present both at 2 weeks following treatment and at subsequent follow-up. Also, they differed
from the relationships which were found to be statistically significant in an earlier study. It was concluded that they were
chance relationships. Approximately half the patients reported possible or definite reduction in homosexual feeling and an
increase in heterosexual feeling after 6 months or longer. The results are comparable with those of a previous study using
apomorphine conditioning and aversion-relief therapy to treat homosexuality. |
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