aversion therapy

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Trauma-focused CBT and behavioral therapies such as aversion therapy and systematic desensitization are subsets under the umbrella of cognitive behavioral therapy.

From Los Angeles Times

"Five or six" sessions of aversion therapy at a hospital in Blackburn were arranged.

From BBC

He then repeatedly beat him after finding out he was gay, as "a very crude attempt at aversion therapy".

From BBC

“They were the most horrendous films: concentration camps, bodies stacked up. He was thinking of using them in the treatment sequence, where Alex is given aversion therapy.”

From Salon

He was thinking of using them in the treatment sequence, where Alex is given aversion therapy.

From The Guardian