Charles,
What you underwent is not electric shock aversion therapy, but ECT, electro-convulsive therapy, which is completely different. In ECT, electricity is used to initiate a series of convulsions which “reboots” the brain. Many people with severe depression have been helped tremendously by this treatment. This is the treatment that was portrayed (badly) in “One Flew Over Rhe Cuckoo’s Nest”
Electric Shock Conversion Therapy is completely different. Where ECT is done under anesthesia, the whole point of aversion therapy is to inflict pain. The setup typically involves delivering a painful electric shock whenever a slide of a male nude is displayed (when treating gay men), but no shock is delivered when a slide of a female nude is shown. Electric shock aversion therapy is now condemned by the menial health community as abusive and ineffective. A form of aversion therapy was portrayed (crudely) in “A Clockwork Orange.”