User:GJaet/Aversion therapy

In history[edit]
Pliny the Elder attempted to heal alcoholism in the first century Rome by putting putrid spiders in alcohol abusers' drinking glasses.

In 1935, Charles Shadel turned a colonial mansion in Seattle into the Shadel Sanatorium where he began treating alcoholics for their substance use disorder. His enterprise was launched with the help of gastroenterologist Walter Voegtlin and psychiatrist Fred Lemere. Together, they created a medical practice that exclusively treated chronic alcoholism through Pavlovian conditioned reflex aversion therapy.

''In the 1960s and 1970s aversion therapy was used on a small group of lesbian and bisexual identifying woman in England. Electric shocks and injections to induce vomiting were used to prevent the woman from looking at other woman. This was meant to work as a form of conversion therapy.''