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1976 aversion-therapy subject
Cameron, later head of the acting program at the University of Iowa, volunteered for the BYU electric aversion therapy study in 1976 and gave the fullest first-person account of it in 2011. He described setting his own shock level and choosing the highest one: 'I was always turning it up to get the most pain because I was desperate.' Of the outcome he said it 'didn't change anything except increase my self-loathing.'
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Electric aversion therapy at BYUhinge
Max Ford McBride completed his dissertation 'Effect of Visual Stimuli in Electric Aversion Therapy' under D. Eugene Thorne, chair of BYU's psychology department. Seventeen men enrolled and fourteen completed treatment: a plethysmograph measured arousal while male and female images were shown, and electric shocks were administered in conjunction with certain images. Subjects set their own pain levels; the dissertation ranks the jolts on a scale from discrete to intolerable. Patients averaged about three months and up to twenty-two fifty-minute sessions. Participants signed releases acknowledging that damage to tissue or organs might occur. The independent Provo student paper the Seventh East Press later collected first-hand accounts: one former student described 'an electrical shock while viewing a pornographic picture of a male,' followed by a female image without shock, while a former BYU counselor called it 'aversive therapy - not shock treatment' using 'mild electric stimulus' and slides of men and women in various stages of dress.
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