NOUN
- any technique of behavior modification that uses unpleasant stimuli in a controlled fashion to alter behavior in a therapeutic way; primarily used for alcoholism or drug abuse (but with little success)
How To Use aversion therapy In A Sentence
- Imagery offers another approach to aversion therapy which is not as painful or invasive as the procedures mentioned above.
- Despite what many people think, aversion therapy is no longer used by professional psychologists in this country.
- Despite what many people think, aversion therapy is no longer used by professional psychologists in this country.
- I painted the nibbled area with a well known brand of chilli sauce as aversion therapy.
- So, I'll have to do this through old-fashioned will power or some 12-step program or through aversion therapy or something. which gives the medical term for nail biting: onychophagia, from the Greek compound comprising the root of onyx (onycho -) "(finger / toe) nail" + phagia "eating. Marginal Notes
- Existing treatments for alcoholism tend to concentrate either on abstention - sometimes aided by drugs - or the use of aversion therapy, such as drugs that make you ill if you drink.
- Harrell's presence was like aversion therapy, shocking Hyde out of his numb, weary self-absorption. THE LAST RAVEN
- But I was not of that age, had no desire to learn programming languages, and had undergone game aversion therapy.
- Apnea is a form of aversion therapy which produces a terrifying paralysis of breathing for about 60 seconds.
- But I was not of that age, had no desire to learn programming languages, and had undergone game aversion therapy.
