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Aversion Therapy

Definition: Aversion Therapy

Aversion Therapy

Noun

1. Any technique of behavior modification that uses unpleasant stimuli in a controlled fashion to alter behavior in a therapeutic way; primarily used for alcoholism or drug abuse (but with little success).

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Specialty Definition: Aversion Therapy

DomainDefinition

Medicine

Negative conditioning, consisting of pairing the unwanted symptom or behavior(e. g. alcoholism). . . with painful or unpleasant stimuli until the undesirable behavior is suppressed. Source: European Union. (references)

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Crosswords: Aversion Therapy

Specialty definitions using "aversion therapy": behaviour therapy, behavioural therapynutrition educatorWEIGHT-REDUCTION SPECIALIST. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Aversion Therapy

DomainTitle

Books

  • Aversion Therapy and Behaviour Disorders: An Analysis (reference)

  • Foundations of Aversion Therapy (reference)

  • The punishment cure : how aversion therapy is being used to eliminate smoking, drinking, obesity, homosexuality ... and practically anything else (reference)

    (more book examples)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Aversion Therapy

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

aversion therapy

15
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Modern Translation: Aversion Therapy

Language Translations for "aversion therapy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

aversionsbehandling (aversion conditioning, aversion treatment). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

aversion therapy (aversion conditioning, aversion treatment), aversietherapie (aversion conditioning, aversion treatment). (various references)

   

French

  

traitement d'aversion (aversion conditioning, aversion treatment), thérapie d'aversion (aversion conditioning, aversion treatment), cure de dégout (aversion conditioning, aversion treatment), cure de déconditionnement (aversion conditioning, aversion treatment). (various references)

   

German

  

Aversionsbehandlung (aversion conditioning, aversion treatment). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

θεραπεία αποστροφής (aversion conditioning, aversion treatment). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

aversionay erapythay

   

Portuguese

  

tratamento de aversão (aversion conditioning, aversion treatment). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

tratamiento de aversión (aversion conditioning, aversion treatment). (various references)

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Anagrams: Aversion Therapy

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-e-e-h-i-n-o-p-r-r-s-t-v-y"

-3 letters: arsenopyrite, preservation.

-4 letters: erythrosine, hypertonias, hypotensive, personative, praetorians, reparations, reservation.

-5 letters: anastrophe, antiheroes, antiherpes, erythrosin, evaporates, evaporites, hypertonia, interphase, interposer, narratives, operatives, overpraise, overprints, overstrain, overtrains, parathions, perversion, perversity, praetorian, preharvest, prehistory, pretorians, privateers, proteinase, protensive, pyrethrins, ratepayers, reparation, reparative, resorptive, separation, separative, venerators, veratrines, veterinary.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Bibliography


  

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