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He also liked to use tape recorders during aversion therapy. It was a controversial treatment that tried to associate something unpleasant with a patient’s bad habit: smoking, nail-chewing, drugs, drinking etc. In Anthony Burgess’s 1962 novel A Clockwork Orange, Alex, the teenage protagonist, is subjected to the Ludovico Technique, a form of behaviour modification that bears uncanny similarities to Sargant’s take on aversion therapy. Injected with emetics while watching violent films, he is conditioned to be ill whenever he has an aggressive thought.
The Sleep Room: A Sadistic Psychiatrist and the Women Who Survived Him
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