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Subjective and Penile Plethysmograph Responses to Aversion Therapy for Homosexuality: A Follow-up Study

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

N. McConaghy
N. McConaghy*
Affiliation:
School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Sydney
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Forty patients who requested treatment to reduce homosexual impulses were randomly allocated to receive apomorphine or aversion-relief therapy. Details have been published (McConaghy, 1969), concerning the subjects, the method of treatment and the changes observed two weeks after treatment in reported subjective feelings and in penile volume responses to pictures of nude males and females. A further analysis of the penile volume responses at this time has now been made, and the subjects have been followed up for at least a year.

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Research Article
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 117 , Issue 540 , November 1970 , pp. 555 - 560
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Copyright © The Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1970 

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