Question: How exactly were the doctors able to reverse the effects and undo the Ludovico technique that Alex was subjected to?
Captain Defenestrator
25th Jun 2009
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Answer: When Alex jumped out of the window, the shock of the fall snapped him out of the Ludovico technique.
He mentions later that he's been having dreams of someone picking through his brain. This is the government undoing the treatment.
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Chosen answer: We're never given details. Possibly electroshock therapy or somehow purging his system of the Ludovico formula.
Captain Defenestrator