On the differentiation of homo- or hetero-erotic interest in the male: An operant technique illustrated in a case of a motor-cycle fetishist

Brown, Paul

doi:10.1016/0005-7967(64)90052-x

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“…There is a very strong necessity for an objective evaluation of the direction of sexual interests before and after treatment which is independent of clinical data, and which will employ indices different from those involved in the treatment situation itself. Brown (1964) has described a technique in which the number of times a subject operates a shutter to reveal a picture is used to index the relative intensities of sexual interest. This technique has been criticized by Koenig (196S).…”

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Aversion therapy for sexual deviations: A critical review.

Feldman¹

1966

Psychological Bulletin

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Psychotherapeutic and psychoanalytic methods have a poor record in the treatment of sexual deviations, so that attempts to apply aversion therapy techniques are justified and are becoming increasingly frequent. Aversion therapy techniques used to date in the treatment of homosexuality and other sexual deviations are described and critically assessed from the point of view of the experimental psychology of learning. Many deficiencies are pointed out and suggestions for improvements are made. There is good evidence to support the use of instrumental rather than classical conditioning, and of electrical rather than chemical aversion. While results to date are encouraging, they are by no means conclusive. It is strongly emphasized that future progress lies in maintaining close links with general experimental psychology and with clinical psychiatry.

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Aversion therapy for sexual deviations: A critical review.

Feldman¹

1966

Psychological Bulletin

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“…In the 9 months immediately prior to admission here he had stolen a motorcycle once every 10 days on average. He was diagnosed as a case of motor-cycle fetishism with latent homosexuality, and an experiment (Brown, 1964) confirmed that he was predominantly homosexually orientated.…”

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Experimental testing of two psychoanalytic hypotheses

Schmidt

Brown

1965

British Journal of Medical Psychology

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On an empirical calculus of reinforcement magnitude

Cliffe

1977

Arch Sex Behav

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Current available measures of sexual orientation are briefly reviewed. A novel sexual orientation measure is proposed, based on experiments in operant psychology. Previous relevant studies are reviewed, and it is suggested that a deficiency is their reliance on a single response as the dependent variable. The matching law is introduced, and it is argued that this provides a potentially powerful framework within which the relative reinforcement magnitudes of sexual stimuli may be computed, using as the dependent variable the relative rates of two responses. The proposed assessment method provides a means of answering the question "What is the reinforcement magnitude of various classes of erotic stimuli for a given individual?"

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On the differentiation of homo- or hetero-erotic interest in the male: An operant technique illustrated in a case of a motor-cycle fetishist

Cited by 12 publications

References 2 publications

Aversion therapy for sexual deviations: A critical review.

Aversion therapy for sexual deviations: A critical review.

Experimental testing of two psychoanalytic hypotheses

On an empirical calculus of reinforcement magnitude

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