BYU doctoral student, aversion-therapy researcher
Max Ford McBride
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BYU doctoral student, aversion-therapy researcher
McBride's 1976 BYU dissertation, 'Effect of Visual Stimuli in Electric Aversion Therapy,' is the single most-cited document in the aversion-therapy controversy. Seventeen men enrolled and fourteen completed treatment; subjects were shown male and female images while a plethysmograph measured arousal and electric shocks were administered. The study was supervised by D. Eugene Thorne, chair of BYU's psychology department and McBride's committee chairman.
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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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"Effect of Visual Stimuli in Electric Aversion Therapy" (PhD dissertation, Brigham Young University)
Max Ford McBride
The design and scale of the BYU electric aversion therapy study: seventeen male subjects, fourteen completing, supervised by D. Eugene Thorne.
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