They stressed how they'd been unwilling participants, and that they'd gone to the institute for other issues. Amory: Nearly everyone who experienced Camerons treatments first-hand has since died. Ben: Did he have any favorite sayings or idiosyncrasies or things like that that you remember or that made an impression on you when you were younger? The only cure for mental illness, he theorized, was to eliminate its "carriers" from society altogether. Part of Camerons plan for his patients was to wipe their minds clean, to make them forget their past, so they could move forward. Its not a very popular mountain to climb, its steep. Like in Nicaragua, where he was The New York Times Bureau Chief. In this manner, somatic causes could be compared. They also asked him for clarification about what happened to his father's personal papers and patient records, and he replied, "Well, I didn't destroy the documents. Finally, while the person is in isolated confinement, in LSD altered states of consciousness, and deprived of sensory stimulation, adequate food, water, and oxygen, the subject would be bombarded by psychic driving by use of a football helmet clamped to the head with taped messages played for hours non-stop up to a half-million times, messages such as my mother hates me. (McCoy, 2007). Don't worry, it gets worse. in psychological medicine from the University of Glasgow in 1924, a D.P.M. Hebb submitted his findings to the CIA, and it ended up being just the beginning. Ben: The study also said that these treatments, the de-patterning and psychic driving programs including LSD injections, induced comas, sensory deprivation and electroshock had a detrimental impact on patients memories, which, in retrospect, might have been part of the point. That was in December of 1959, and according to the lawsuit (via the Consumer Law Group), Cameron diagnosed Morrow as having "nervousness and tension." Marian: It's become so embedded in our narrative, in our pop culture, without people really understanding that it happened It was real. In 1936, he also published his first book, Objective and Experimental Psychiatry which introduced his belief that psychiatry should approach the study of human behavior in a rigorous, scientific fashion rooted in biology. Ben: Over and over, weve heard from victims of Dr. Ewen Camerons brutal experiments at the Allan Memorial Institute. Amory: With the information we do have about Cameron, we know this: his so-called treatment didnt cure mental illness, and it didnt control peoples minds. Abruptly and unexpectedly, Dr. Cameron suffered a life-ending heart attack while mountain climbing in 1967. Duncan Cameron is Ewen Cameron's son, and when he speaks of his father, he talks about a man who loved to hike, read science fiction, and who had an obituary that read, in part: "Those who are privileged to know him, even briefly, will not soon forget the warmth and kindliness of this understanding man." He has an open, amused look on his face. 5, p. 2227) As a result of the lawsuit, the CIA agreed to pay $750,000, the maximum allowed under U.S. law, to settle a case without conceding liability. And it's still hugely controversial: In 2019, The New York Times published drawings done by prisoners who had been subjected to these torture methods at Guantanamo Bay, and it's not for the faint of heart. Rauh: --Well, I will put it another way. Donald Ewen Cameron ((1901-12-24)24 December 1901 (1967-09-08)8 September 1967)[1] was a Scottish-born psychiatrist. In 1926, he served as assistant medical officer there[9] and was introduced to psychiatrist Sir David Henderson, a student of Swiss-born US psychiatrist Adolf Meyer. There must have been names of patients. The line between fantasy and reality blurred. I mean, he was fascinated with the future in his own field of psychiatry, medicine and government. And here I am looking much younger than I am now. The National Post reports that in 1992, 77 of Cameron's patients were awarded an ex gratia settlement of $100,000, and that's all well and good, but claims made by more than 250 other people were rejected for various reasons. Kinzer: This idea of some evil scientists taking control of someone else's mind is a wonderfully appealing trope, and it's been used repeatedly in very popular movies and books and stories. And one of these risks was the treatment that he was using. Cameron wrote that mental illness was transmitted generationally; thus, the re-occurrence of mental illness could be stopped by remodeling and expanding existing concepts of marriage suitability, as well as the quarantine of mentally ill individuals from the general population. All Germans on trial would be assessed according to the likeliness for committing the crime. Death: June 18, 1958 (52) Immediate Family: Son of Sir Ewen Allan Cameron and Rachel Margaret Cameron. In some cases, the same phrases reappear all through these. Research genealogy for Donald Ewen Cameron of lambeth, as well as other members of the Cameron family, on Ancestry. Cameron stayed there for seven years and was made physician-in-charge of the Reception Unit of the Provincial Mental Hospital. He died of a heart attack while climbing a mountain in the Adirondacks in 1967. The title is The Understanding Man. Lake Placid in particular, and the northern Adirondacks in general, have lost suddenly, tragically, but in a sense, beautifully, probably their most distinguished citizen. Memories are not the most reliable form of evidence. She said that at the time, Cameron was something of a celebrity. So I think in a certain way they believed that what fiction writers could come up with, somebody could actually make real. She never did get her children back. Amory: He said he did not destroy documents, that he didn't know about that. Amory: Just not in the way he might have hoped. Region. But he has fond childhood memories of summers spent in New Yorks Adirondack Mountains, where his dads competitive nature led him again and again to the line of the horizon. Harvey: Here he is trying to reach the peak, trying to climb the mountain, reach this goal. Duncan: Well, I think that I would feel sad about that. And then she came back from Montreal and she was never the same. Stephen Kinzer: In the end, Gottlieb was forced to conclude that there's no such thing as mind control and that everything he had done had been for naught. He moved to Upstate New York where he studied aging and memory at two hospitals in Albany. Particularly because we put that question to him today. Cameron also hoped to generate families capable of using authority and techniques to take measures against mental illness, which would later be apparent in Cameron's MKULTRA and MKDELTA experiments. In compliance with the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) requirements, some of these records are no longer in the physical possession of the FBI, eliminating the FBI's capability to re-review and/or re-process this material. Cleghorn immediately went and took a long, hard look at what Cameron had actually been doing in his little corner of the university, and he was pretty shocked. Alison Steel won compensation for her mother's misery in 2017, says the CBC: $100,000 in exchange for ending legal action. But the government agency backing his experiments at the Allan did find a way to make use of his methods. Ian Donald Cameron is geboren in het jaar 1932 in Blairmore House, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, zoon van Ewen Donald CAMERON en Enid Agnes Maud LEVITA. "He was supposed to do wonders with people with depression or mental health issues." This personality type poses a danger to those closest to them, especially children. Pregnant with son Lloyd, Esther was kept in a drug-induced coma in the sleep room for a month, where she lost 13 pounds. [39], Social and intrapsychic behaviour analysis, Cameron and Freud: civilization and discontents. Cameron would analyze what conditions produced the stronger worker, what would be the necessary conditions to replicate this personality and to reward the stronger while disciplining the weaker. Amory: The study, which was published a few months before Cameron died, found that Camerons methods exposed his patients to unnecessary risk, and that there was no clinical proof his methods were any more effective than standard forms of treatment. For years, the patients of Dr. Ewen Cameron or, more accurately, the families of those patients have been trying to get compensation for the unthinkable experiments their loved ones were subjected to. Instead of being considered for the fellowship, the neurologist was admitted to his Allan Memorial Institute, diagnosed with schizophrenia, and given such a heavy dose of barbiturates that it triggered an allergic reaction and she suffered from a prolonged loss of oxygen to the brain. Ben: As for the CIAs MK-ULTRA program itself, it never had an official end date. When asked about the decision to involve Cameron in MK-ULTRA, John Gittinger, the CIA officer in charge of monitoring his work said, quote, Now that was a foolish mistake. He warned that government institutions should take measures against such potential liabilities. Care of his patients went to his assistants, and here's where things get even weirder. Duncan: Not really, I certainly don't know anything about the treatments he was using, I didnt know anything about that. Her family sued, first based on the treatment alone, then again, after discovering she was a part of the MKUltra program. ", So, they went back to a 1983 court transcript, where Duncan was called to the stand to testify about what happened to his father's documents. Donald Ewen Cameron was the key figure in the Montreal experiments. This was made into a TV mini-series directed by Anne Wheeler in 1998, called The Sleep Room, which also dramatizes the lawsuit of Cameron's ex-patients against the CIA. Who hasnt talked about this in a long time. Even as he wrote about Cameron's "warmth [which was] never allowed to appear as intimacy," he wrote about a pretty big blind spot: Cameron had apparently hired a few assistants with "psychopathic personalities.". [22], During the 1950s and 1960s, Cameron became involved in what has later become known as the MKUltra mind control program, which was covertly sponsored by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)[6] and which eventually led to the publication of the KUBARK Counterintelligence Interrogation manual. The paper stated that German culture and its people would have offspring bound to become a threat to world peace in 30 years. Harvey: It is frustrating, and if you talk about a story with no end, I think the important thing to remember is that it isn't just the patients who went through this, it was their families. And people talk about the transmission of trauma through generations. Dr. Morrow, says The Washington Post, had applied for a fellowship in psychiatry with Cameron. 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The U.S. wanted to know just how such a thing could possibly happen, and Dr. Ewen Cameron had a theory: brainwashing. The behaviour of a mental patient could resemble the behaviour of a patient with, for example, syphilis, and then a somatic cause could be deduced for a psychological illness. Rauh: A question that Mr. Turner wanted me to ask was what happened to the papers identifying the patients? When then-CIA director Stansfield Turner testified about the program in 1977, he said (via the Smithsonian) that the bottom line was to develop "the use of biological and chemical materials in altering human behavior." The second part of the technique was inspired by something called the Cerebrophone, which was essentially a "learn-while-you-sleep" recording device. Heres part of Duncans transcript: Duncan (from the transcript): I recall contacting the American Psychiatric Association and asking them if they would have an interest in holding his papers in their archives, and they expressed an interest in doing it. Esther Schrier who was a nurse at Montreal's Jewish General Hospital tragically lost her first child at just three weeks of age. At least, until after Cameron left the Allan. Cameron wanted to build an inventive psychiatric institution to determine rapid ways for societal control while demanding a psychological economy that did not center itself around guilt and guilt complexes. His response? Cameron started to distinguish populations between "the weak" and "the strong". Were they *destroyed* or did you just take the patients name out? The Guardian talked to Alison Steel, Jean's daughter and one of the many family members trying to shine a light on what was done to their loved ones without their consent. He reported that "the subject's very identity had begun to disintegrate," and that's when someone should, ya know, stop. Amory: Dr. Ewen Cameron will never be able to respond to the intergenerational trauma created by his work. The first was for 18 days and the second for 29 days, all while hearing endless recorded messages and being subjected to a series of electroshock therapy sessions. Duncan: I'm Duncan Cameron. Donald Cameron of Lochiel (c.1700 - October 1748), was an influential Highland Clan Chief known for his magnanimous and gallant nature. The work of Dr. Ewen Cameron may have been discredited by mainstream psychiatry, but that doesn't mean it went away completely. John Marks observes, Ewen Cameron did not need the CIA to corrupt him. According to Cameron's psychiatric analysis of the German people, they were not suitable to have children or hold positions of authority because of a genetic tendency to organize society in a way that fostered fearsome aggression and would lead to war rather than peace; he would repeatedly use the German as the archetypal character structure on which to ground the most psychologically deviant humans. In other words, torture. Cameron's work stopped when she gave birth, and Lloyd remembered a broken mother. Dr. Ewen Cameron wanted to win a Nobel Prize for his work in psychiatry. Did he ever talk about that? Cregg: What do you know about mind-control experiments? He continued his training in the United States under Meyer at the Phipps Clinic, Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland from 1926 to 1928 with a Henderson Research Scholarship. Advancing Voluntary, Informed Consent to Medical Intervention, Cameron was an internationally prominent psychiatrist who developed torture techniques on his involuntary hospitalized patients mostly women. That's how quick it is because it removes your time and space. Donald Ewen Cameron was born in Scotland in 1901. His work had led him to the belief that mental illness could be "cured" like, say, a broken hip might be rehabilitated. Here, patients were exposed to a range of RF and electromagnetic signals and monitored for changes in behaviour. Amory: Marians mom died three ago. . He was there when his legal partner, Joseph Rauh, took Camerons deposition. In 1943, Cameron was invited to McGill University in Montreal by neurosurgeon Dr Wilder Penfield. ", Why MKUltra's Top Brainwashing Scientist Was A Real-Life Nightmare, "Brainwashing's Avatar: The Curious Career of Dr. Ewen Cameron. Amory: Duncan has a very different picture of his father, a whole bunch of them actually. While more is known about the experiments of Dr. Ewen Cameron than about some of the other MKUltra projects, there's still a lot of information missing. In 1936, he moved to Massachusetts to become director of the research division at Worcester State Hospital only 1 year later. Cameron decided that Germans would be most likely to commit atrocities due to their historical, biological, racial and cultural past and their particular psychological nature. Scottish-American psychiatrist Dr. Donald Ewen Cameron led and conducted these experiments. Ben: But there is reason to believe that these documents arent just missing. And he was always very fascinated by what the future held for us all. Cameron never got his Nobel Prize in fact, he died not long after leaving Allan Memorial Institute. And how his work lives on. Donald Ewen Cameron was born in Bridge of Allan, Scotland, the oldest son of a Presbyterian minister. Duncan: I mean, it's very different than the caricature that you sometimes read in the press. Ben: The main takeaway here is Duncan admitting that he did remove documents pertaining to specific patients, before giving his dads papers to the archives. Duncan Cameron: This is a picture of the whole family. We collect and match historical records that Ancestry users have contributed to their family trees to create each person's profile. This must be very difficult, very complicated for them. The Canadian government also funded the project. Cameron quickly found patients didn't want to listen to the messages. You know, all of us not only respected him, but loved him, and not just myself, but my brothers. Ewen Cameron experimented on people right up until he left the Allan in 1964. We shouldn't have done it, I'm sorry we did it.. Jim Turner: The most salient point that I recall is that Camerons son told us that he'd taken his father's private records and had destroyed them. Patients would be subjected to messages repeated hundreds of thousands of times, as they were kept in their coma for up to a month. Ben: Duncan says his father was so busy that he didnt see much of him during their time in Montreal. from the University of London in 1925, and an M.D. It affected a lot of people. AIan Cameron followed in the footsteps of his father and became a director at Panmure Gordon in 1957. It petered out in the early 60s as the programs director, Sidney Gottlieb, came to a realization. Once it was down to an exact science the precise number of hours in a coma, the number and duration of electroshock treatments, the exact dosages of drugs he believed that curing mental illness could be as simple as admitting a patient, putting them through the program, and spitting out a brand new, problem-free person on the other side. His support of Charles Edward Stuart was instrumental in the Jacobite Rising of 1745 Lochiel and the Jacobite cause There is no incontinence, there is no mutism, and we are continuing this intense treatment of her until we get complete depatterning.". Dr. Ewen Cameron wanted to win a Nobel Prize for his work in psychiatry. The human significance of his dark legacy was brought to public attention when nine of his Canadian victims filed lawsuits in 1980s twenty-one years after Camerons death. The sick were, for Cameron, the viral infection to its stability and health. [25], Cameron had been hoping to correct schizophrenia by "erasing" existing memories and "reprogramming" the psyche. We were unable to subscribe you to WBUR Today. She was left with permanent impairments: She was unable to recognize faces, had impaired spatial recognition, and lost a good portion of her memory. . Or answer questions about his motivations, whether or not he knew he was part of the CIAs mind control efforts. People Projects Discussions Surnames . In 1938 he received his diploma in psychiatry and became professor of neurology, psychiatry at University at . When it came time to evaluate Nazi leaders ahead of the Nuremberg Trials, he was one of a group of internationally renowned mental health professionals who were sent to decide just what was going on in the heads of some of the worst war criminals the world had ever seen. She had no idea how to boil water, much less care for a child. Duncan: Yes. Ben: Street Mountain is a strange choice for a bucket list. Heres journalist John Marks. He never got one. Charles Tanny was a former patient of Dr. Donald Ewen Cameron at the Allan Memorial Institute in Montreal in 1957. [citation needed]. It is at this juncture that he became interested with how he could effectively manipulate the brain to control and understand the processes of memory. Duncan Cameron: No. The idea that people needed to sit down and talk about their problems was the old way of doing things, and Cameron was living in an era where things were getting more and more automated. Ben: But Duncan is still, in some ways, trying to defend his dads honor. Amory: But Cameron was publishing articles and giving speeches about his work throughout his life. . And Camerons part of that. The legacy can be seen in the torture techniques employed in Northern Ireland and in Guantanamo Bay. In 1933, he married Jean C. Rankine, whom he had met while they were students at the University of Glasgow. And I think you have, as much as love that you had for him you also had respect for him. His father, grandfather and great-grandfather were all senior partners in the company. There's Edgar Allan Poe stories and Sherlock Holmes stories. music, sound effects, tone) are harder to translate to text. As time has worn on, its become the families of those victims who shoulder the burden. It's Boston local news in one concise, fun and informative email. If you haven't heard Parts 1 through 4 yet, you can find them here, here,here,and here. I mean, he was that much of a scientist. Donald Ewen Cameron 24 December 1901 - 8 September 1967)[1] was a Scottish-born psychiatrist. That was the case for people like Phyllis Goldberg. We encourage you to research and examine these records . Thank you! Cleghorn immediately ended Camerons program. Those with anxieties or insecurities and who had trouble with the state of the world were labelled as "the weak"; in Cameron's analysis, they could not cope with life and had to be isolated from society by "the strong". So we dont have access to Cameron's thoughts on his own legacy. Our username is. And they haven't been super successful. Cameron began to base some of his notions on race, as is seen in his theories regarding the German people. [33] The son of one of Cameron's patients noted in a memoir that other than Ed Broadbent and Svend Robinson, no Canadian MP brought up the issue in the House of Parliament. Advertisement. Heads up that some elements (i.e. So why havent they? We want to hear from you! And he was searching for ways of doing something about them. Cameron used his ideas to implement policies on who should govern and parent in society. Ewen Donald Cameron. Cameron placed the psychiatric treatment unit inside of the hospital and inspected its success. I'm sure part of him very much wanted to be the person who cures mental illness. We love making Endless Thread, and we want to be able to keep making it far into the future. And he always had a little book of science fiction by the bedside. [citation needed]. For example, something like rock music could be created by mentally ill people and would produce mentally ill people through infection, which in turn would be transmitted to the genes. "Now, that was a foolish mistake. Although society had established sanctions against the spread of infectious diseases, Cameron wanted to extend the concept of contagion to chronic anxiety. Amory: This is a hard reality for the family that Ewen Cameron left behind. Memorials. North America. Duncan: He loved hiking. These negative statements were sometimes taken from the therapy sessions Cameron conducted when patients first arrived, says Rebecca Lemov, author of "Brainwashing's Avatar: The Curious Career of Dr. Ewen Cameron." Today, we're talking to one of the only people who will stand up for Dr. Cameron. In the final installment ofMadness," we sit down with Duncan, and we explore the shocking ways his father's methods are still being used today. A series of other research scandals in the 1960s resulted in stricter regulation of research practices and a more stringent code of ethics. After his treatments patients were unable to function; they had been reduced to a state of infancy. Jean spent three months under Cameron's care, and spent two periods in a drug-induced coma. Operating under the umbrella of MKUltra were as many as 162 sub-projects, with as many as 80 different organizations involved in research. That could be heightened with various drugs, eventually was replaced by positive messages, and the so-called "psychic driving" would continue. Ontario. Kinzer: Later on, it became the basis for manuals that the CIA provided in the 1980s to police forces in Latin America that were known to practice torture. Because it would seem to me, or I was concerned as a lawyer, that it might be a breach of the patient-doctor privilege. Typically, I would show up there and, if it was a Friday, ask if I could have a lift down to Lake Placid. [37], Whether or not Cameron was aware that funding for his experiments was coming from the CIA is unclear; it has been argued that he would have carried out the exact same experiments if funding had come from a source without ulterior motives. And they are still being asked to by victims and their families, 60 years later. At the heart of MKUltra, says The Guardian, was the broadcasting of videos of American POWs from the Korean War condemning their own country and lauding the benefits of Communism. with distinction from the University of Glasgow in 1936. He was always interested in the future. There is no such thing as closure. Ben: Even though Cameron never gave the CIA the keys to control peoples minds, he did give them the tools to break peoples minds down experimental drugs, recordings on loop, sensory deprivation. On March 12, her records show she was considered "depatterned": She could no longer stand, speak, could barely swallow, was incontinent, and required treatment by an obstetrician for severe bleeding. He received an M.B., Ch.B. Not, at least, until well into 1965, months after they were told to end the experiments. In addition to LSD, he experimented with various paralytic drugs such as curare and electroconvulsive therapy at thirty to forty times the normal power. And in a lot of ways, modern psychiatry has completely left behind the man who once dominated its ranks. Ben Brock Johnson: So what do you have in front of you here? Ben: Hebb did an interview with a film producer in the 1980s, saying, quote, Cameron was irresponsible criminally stupid. Despite the horrific abuse, the American and Canadian psychiatric establishment closed ranks. What Hebb and Cameron both have in common is their contribution in establishing the scientific foundation for CIAs two-stage psychological torture method. In 1984, New Scientist reported on a lawsuit filed on behalf of some of the people who ended up a part of MKUltra's Sub-project 68. These became the basis of a new social and behavioural science that he would later institute through his presidencies of the Canadian, American and World Psychiatric Associations, the American Psychopathological Association and the Society of Biological Psychiatry. As soon as his family found out about his death, they burned all the files that this man kept in his possession. After one test he noted: "Although the patient was prepared by both prolonged sensory isolation (35 days) and by repeated depatterning, and although she received 101 days of positive driving, no favourable results were obtained." [clarification needed] Those Germans affected by the events that led to World War II were of utmost concern. Duncan: It's really a very moving editorial. Which suggests it was for purposes of, not closure, but of not wanting information to come to light that was in the papers. Alison Steel says her mother was never the same after undergoing. It was the start of a series of experiments backed by the British, the Americans, and the Canadians, and they wanted to know what prolonged sensory deprivation actually did to a person. Ben: About halfway through, Prosecutor Joseph Rauh starts quoting statements that Camerons wife Duncans mom made on the record. Amory: He remembers his dad working a lot during this time, which, definitely tracks. It is true. You can try, The 1963 "Kubark Counterintelligence Interrogation" manual, "CIA's Secret Brainwashing Experiment" (1984), "Brainwashed: The Secret CIA Experiments in Canada" (2017), Jim Turner and Joseph Rauh's lawsuit debrief: "Anatomy Of A Public Interest Case Against The CIA,", Send us a direct message on Reddit. [31][2] In her book, In the Sleep Room: The Story of the CIA Brainwashing Experiments in Canada,[32] author Anne Collins explored the history of Cameron and Montreal's Allan Memorial Institute. To prevent this, the West would have to take measures to reorganize German society. The personality types are as follows: Cameron believed that a society in which psychiatry built and developed the institutions of government, schools, prisons and hospitals would be one in which science triumphed over the "sick" members of society. Very different. 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