"We don't have homosexuals in this school, you're going to be expelled. And when you're expelled, everybody will get to know what you're like and your parents will be ashamed of you. I didn't want to be cured. I was quite happy, Jeremy says, but adds that he couldn't get expelled and didn't feel he could refuse. He was told to go to his GP, who referred him to a mental health hospital."
"Jeremy's first session coincided with the start of his A Level exams. On the same day as I took three other of my A Level exams, I also sat for an hour and a half naked in a mental hospital getting electric shocks, he recalls. How the hell I was supposed to do anything, I've no idea. He had hoped to go to the University of Exeter to study minin"
A 72-year-old man underwent electric shock aversion therapy (ESAT) at age 17 after being forced to choose between expulsion and treatment at a Catholic school. He had confided romantic feelings and was told expulsion would shame his family. A GP referral and brief psychiatric interview led to ESAT sessions involving being strapped naked and given electric shocks. The first session occurred during his A Level exams, impairing his studies and prospects. The treatment caused long-term physical and emotional trauma and disrupted his hopes for university.
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