The application of behaviour therapy to the treatment of alcoholism

Punishment in Organizations: A Review, Propositions, and Research Suggestions

“…Researchers also began to study punishment as a procedure to suppress or eliminate predominantly deviant or pathological behaviors among human subjects. Punishment has been used effectively to modify such conditions as homosexuality [Feldman & MacCullock, 1965], self-mutilating behaviors [Bucher & Lovaas, 1968;Harris & Ersner-Hersfield, 1978], alcoholism [Balke, 1965], and other behaviors. Summaries of the effectiveness of punishment on human behavior are provided by Johnston [1972], and Rimm and Masters [1974].…”

Aversion Therapies in the Treatment of Alcoholism

“…18 The aversion conditioning is combined with two other techniques, "relaxation training" and "motivation arousal." At a 12-month follow-up, 52% of the patients remained abstinent, 36% had relapsed, and 12% were not traced.…”

Treatment of Alcoholics and Drug Addicts by Verbal Aversion Techniques

“…Blake (1965) also used electric shock with 62 patients. In his follow-up study he compared two groups treated with relaxation-aversion and aversion only and found that the relaxation-aversion approach had a slight advantage over mere aversion (Blake, 1967).…”