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Aversion Therapy of Homosexuality

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

M. J. MacCulloch  and
M. P. Feldman
M. J. MacCulloch
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, The University of Birmingham, P.O. Box 363, Birmingham 15
M. P. Feldman
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, The University of Birmingham, P.O. Box 363, Birmingham 15
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 116 , Issue 535 , June 1970 , pp. 673 - 676
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1970 

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