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Treatment of compulsive gamblers by electrical aversion.
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Treatment of 14 compulsive gamblers using electrical aversion, and five patients remained free of gambling during a follow-up period of at least twelve months.Abstract:
1. The concept of Compulsive Gambling is discussed. 2. Treatment of 14 compulsive gamblers using electrical aversion, is described. 3. Five patients remained free of gambling during a follow-up period of at least twelve months. In two other cases, one claimed not to be gambling, but there was some doubt about this, and the other showed minor activity only.read more
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Pathological Gambling: Etiology, Comorbidity, and Treatment
TL;DR: Pathological Gambling: Etiology, Comorbidity, and Treatment examines the prevalence and consequences of problem gambling as well as approaches to treatment as discussed by the authors, including nonprofessionally guided interventions such as Gamblers Anonymous.
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Pathological gambling: A review of the literature (prepared for the American Psychiatric Association task force on DSM-IV committee on disorders of impulse control not elsewhere classified)
TL;DR: The new DSM-IV criteria as well as outlines the phases of the career of the pathological gambler are outlined, and research discussed includes that on pathological gambling and psychiatric disorders, substance abuse, family issues, children, finances, and crime.
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Outcome of psychological treatments of pathological gambling: a review and meta‐analysis
TL;DR: Psychological interventions for pathological gamble seem to be yield very favourable short- and long-term outcomes.
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Sensation seeking and pathological gambling.
TL;DR: It was argued that pathological gamblers were not necessarily sensation seekers but that avoidance or reduction of noxious physiological states or dysphoric mood, in conjunction with a behaviour completion mechanism, was a major factor in explaining persistence in gambling.
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Evaluation of patients treated for pathological gambling in a combined alcohol, substance abuse and pathological gambling treatment unit using the Addiction Severity Index.
Henry R. Lesieur,Sheila B. Blume +1 more
TL;DR: The study supports the idea that combined treatment is an effective way of dealing with patients whose gambling problems are discovered when they enter treatment for another addiction, as well as for patients whose initial complaints include pathological gambling, with or without additional problems.
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Aversion-relief therapy: a new method for general application.
TL;DR: A new technique named Aversion-Relief Therapy appears to be suitable for general application in the field of neurosis and greatly simplifies the normal requirements of the treatment situation.