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That confirmed my point. One of the best psychologists on earth, Martin Seligman at UPenn, said that results from aversion therapy were highly successful.
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At the time, homosexuality was considered by the medical community as a psychiatric condition,[68] and aversion therapy was one of the more common methods used to try to cure it.[69] In 1966, Martin Seligman had conducted a study at the University of Pennsylvania that demonstrated positive results, which led to "a great burst of enthusiasm about changing homosexuality [that] swept over the therapeutic community."[70] After flaws were demonstrated in Seligman's experiments, aversion therapy fell out of popularity, and in 1994 the American Medical Association issued a report that stated "aversion therapy is no longer recommended for gay men and lesbians."[71]
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