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. (McCoy, 2007) Indeed, Hebb and Camerons contribution as pioneers who designed the psychological paradigm for torture used by the CIA was acknowledged by The McGill Daily, in 2012. The described types were the enemies of society and life. Allan Cameron. Amory: Marians mom died three ago. 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. Region. To prevent this, the West would have to take measures to reorganize German society. Ben: OK. Fair. That, says McGill University, was the work of Dr. Donald Ewen Cameron, a psychiatrist who performed experiments so horrifying he's been called "Scotland's Mengele." Deze informatie is onderdeel van Families Klein, Ree, de Breed en de Vries van Terschelling van Marthan Klein op Genealogie Online. And we would take off. Heads up that some elements (i.e. Hes in his mid-80s now. In his analysis, culture and society played a crucial role in the ability for one to function according to the demands necessary for human survival. Sarah Anne Johnson: I imagine this is very difficult for his family. Cameron stayed there for seven years and was made physician-in-charge of the Reception Unit of the Provincial Mental Hospital. There is no such thing as closure. "Madness: The Secret Mission for Mind Control and the People Who Paid the Price" an investigative series in 5 parts unravels the shocking history of CIA-funded mind-control experiments. 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. Cregg: What do you know about mind-control experiments? Amory: This is a hard reality for the family that Ewen Cameron left behind. Pregnant with son Lloyd, Esther was kept in a drug-induced coma in the sleep room for a month, where she lost 13 pounds. Ben: But some key documentation of Camerons time at the Allan is straight up missing. 22 As the Watergate scandal broke in 1973, MKUltra was officially ordered to be shut down by the CIA. Anyone with any appreciation of the complexity of the human mind would not expect that you could erase an adult mind and then add things back with this stupid psychic driving. Thus, this group would have to be studied and controlled as a contagious social disease. I mean, he was fascinated with the future in his own field of psychiatry, medicine and government. With a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation, money from John Wilson McConnell of the Montreal Star, and a gift of Sir Hugh Allan's mansion on Mount Royal, the Allan Memorial Institute for psychiatry was founded. 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. Duncan: I'm Duncan Cameron. It's not clear how many patients Dr. Ewen Cameron's treatments destroyed, but some families have come forward with stories of what was done to their loved ones. As time has worn on, its become the families of those victims who shoulder the burden. Rauh: A question that Mr. Turner wanted me to ask was what happened to the papers identifying the patients? . People Projects Discussions Surnames . Amory: Dr. Ewen Cameron will never be able to respond to the intergenerational trauma created by his work. Ben: Im Ben Brock Johnson, and youre listening to Endless Thread, the show featuring stories found in the vast ecosystem of online communities called Reddit. And in that sense, I think his ambition overrode his skills and his ability to do the research. Ewen Donald Cameron. While he didn't name names or give specifics, he did say that papers "related to patients were destroyed.". The guilt of her baby's deadly staph infection stayed with her, and when she became pregnant with her second, and the CBC says she went into Cameron's care in February of 1960. And you see this actual physical manual on how to break down the human mind. Like, did she always have problems? And he said, Oh, gosh. She goes, No. She was the one that was gonna go and conquer the world. The legacy can be seen in the torture techniques employed in Northern Ireland and in Guantanamo Bay. [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. Most of the patient files are gone, and according to WBUR, they weren't just misplaced, they were destroyed. According to The Washington Post, Cameron was recruited in 1957, and he was a big deal. 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. [8] Amory: Duncan struggles dealing with his dads legacy because he cant speak to why his dad did what he did. And they are still being asked to by victims and their families, 60 years later. Camerons techniques have no therapeutic validity whatsoever; they were comparable to Nazi medical atrocities. Amory: Sarah Anne Johnson, whose grandmother Val Orlikow was a patient of Ewen Camerons, has a response to Duncan that, considering what her family has been through as a result of his fathers experimentation, is surprising. I'm sure that they loved him very much and knew him in a very different way. 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. Amory: Author Stephen Kinzer, who wrote the book about the CIA and Mind Control, says, after Vietnam, this same literature got used elsewhere. It is a rare thing that a psychiatrist of his worldwide reputation and capacity should be a resource available to a small mountain community. Ben: So its fitting that, today, most of what people hear about the CIAs search for mind control also seems to come from fantasy and popular fiction. 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. . Abruptly and unexpectedly, Dr. Cameron suffered a life-ending heart attack while mountain climbing in 1967. Ex-husband of Enid Agnes Maud Watson. Donald Cameron of Lochiel (c.1700 - October 1748), was an influential Highland Clan Chief known for his magnanimous and gallant nature. [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. Therefore, society should function to select out the weak and unwanted, those apt towards fearsome aggression that threatened society. She had no idea how to boil water, much less care for a child. She said: "She wasn't able to talk to me about life and regular stuff. Sir Ewen Cameron of Lochiel, 17t. Amory: Marian was 5 years old when her mom was admitted to the Allan for what she thinks was postpartum depression. While guys like Freud encouraged talking through problems, Cameron thought things like electroshock therapy and drug cocktails could be used to physically change the brain and get rid of the illness in question. [citation needed]. Cameron viewed German society throughout history as continually giving rise to fearsome aggression. On the weekends, you'd think he would go out and mow the lawn or bask in the sun or go play golf or tennis, but none of it. [citation needed]. Theres no clear approach to the summit only overgrown pathways. Ben Brock Johnson: So what do you have in front of you here? Not, at least, until well into 1965, months after they were told to end the experiments. Skip . 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. His response? There are movies like Gaslight and Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. Because his dad isnt around to do it himself. His successor at Allan, Robert Cleghorn, would later write (via "Brainwashing's Avatar: The Curious Career of Dr. Ewen Cameron,""Cameron's controversial practices [are] now thoroughly discredited." Jim: But again, you know, the deposition transcript, you're going to have to rely on that, like we did. According to what his son, Duncan, told WBUR, it was 1967 when he decided to climb Street Mountain in the Adirondacks. Duncan: Thats my recollection, that any documents that related to patients were destroyed. Ben: Robert Cleghorn, a former member of Camerons staff, took over after Cameron stepped down. You talked a little bit about this but what was the impact on the family when some of this news started to come out about the CIA and some of the treatment and stuff like that? Some of this work took place in the context of the Project MKUltra program for the developing of mind control and torture techniques, psychoactive poisons, and behavior modification systems. Alison said that when her mother returned, it was no longer her mother. Amory: And, they delivered, with a full transcript of Duncans deposition from November, 1983. Who hasnt talked about this in a long time. Ewen married Agnes Cameron (born Bell) in 1867, at age 35 at marriage place. Through his instruction of nurses and psychiatrists he became an authority in his areas of concentration. Indian River. In this manner, somatic causes could be compared. Click here for the donation page. Amory: They bounced around between foster homes and orphanages for years, experienced emotional and physical abuse. He is largely known today for his central role in unethical medical experiments, and development of psychological and medical torture techniques for the CIA. Amory: You're welcome to pull it out now. And so even all these years later, it's part of my life. As soon as his family found out about his death, they burned all the files that this man kept in his possession. 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. And Mary Morrow? Today, we're talking to one of the only people who will stand up for Dr. Cameron. [28] His work was inspired and paralleled by the psychiatrist William Sargant, who was also involved with the intelligence services and experimented extensively on his patients without their consent, causing similar long-term damage. And he was always very fascinated by what the future held for us all. Alison Steel won compensation for her mother's misery in 2017, says the CBC: $100,000 in exchange for ending legal action. Patients would be subjected to messages repeated hundreds of thousands of times, as they were kept in their coma for up to a month. Amory: This is information that may have proven invaluable in holding Cameron, as well as McGill, the CIA, and the Canadian Government accountable for what happened at the Allan. Police, hospitals, government, and schools would need to use the correct psychiatric authority to stop mental contagions from spreading. Duncan: He loved hiking. 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. If we can succeed in inventing means of changing their attitudes and beliefs, we shall find ourselves in possession of measures which, if wisely used, may be employed in freeing ourselves from their attitudes and beliefs in other fields which have greatly contributed to the instability of our period by their propensity for holding up progress, In Cameron's book Life is For Living, published in 1948, he expressed a concern for the German race in general. Take a guess. And this is a picture up with my brother, Stuart. Amory: Duncan knows how to be very careful about what he says. She's the exception, though, and the CBC says that 2020 saw others like Lana Ponting, who was just 16 when she was sent to the sleep room hoping that year, it would finally be their year, thanks to a class action lawsuit filed in 2019. Dr. Ewen Cameron was an undeniably fascinating figure, and as horrible as his experiments were, the way people continued to talk about him was even more telling. Amory: Immortal Technique is rapping about it: Ben: But for those who have had to deal with the fallout of MK-ULTRA on a personal level, the fact that the program rarely gets discussed outside the realm of pop culture can feel discouraging. Very different. She was a former captain of the Scottish field hockey team, a competitive tennis player,[11] and lecturer in mathematics at the University of Glasgow. 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." (McCoy, 2007), According to Leonard Rubenstein, an attorney for plaintiffs [Mrs. David Orlikow et al. Ewen passed away on month day 1915, at age 84 at death place. Research genealogy for donald ewen Cameron of Melbourne, Victoria, as well as other members of the Cameron family, on Ancestry. In other words, torture. 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. In other words, they really must have seen that there was something wrong and crazy. He didn't pull punches, saying, "We hanged Nazis for doing the sort of things Cameron did.". He died three years later. Its in the Netflix show, Stranger Things: Amory: Or the hit video game Call of Duty: Ben: They're talking about it on The West Wing:C.J. We shouldn't have done it, I'm sorry we did it.". For instance, he was careful to say he didnt know anything about his dads treatment regimen at the Allan, which may very well be true. My recollection was that I wasn't able to provide him with much information that he didn't already have. 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. Amory: Hey, Dad, let's get out of here!, Duncan: I can remember doing that several times. [34], Naomi Klein states in her book The Shock Doctrine that Cameron's research and his contribution to MKUltra were not about mind control and brainwashing, but "to design a scientifically based system for extracting information from 'resistant sources.' To see some of the things that have happened are very upsetting. Ben: Which brings us back to a question that no one can answer why did Dr. Cameron do what he did? He saw no reason why psychiatry should be any different. Don't worry, it gets worse. Care of his patients went to his assistants, and here's where things get even weirder. 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. Family 9 - Donald CAMERON 34, wife Agnes 30, children John 18, Margaret 13, Ann 12, Donald 10, Christian 8, Alexander 6, Dugald 2, Duncan 1/2 (see Donald Cameron) Family 10 - Duncan CAMERON 30 unmarried, sister Mrs McLENNAN 28 and Catherine McLENNAN 5 [38], Cameron died of a heart attack while hiking with his son in the Adirondack Mountains on September 8, 1967. That was just something we wanted to get clarification on. [citation needed] He furthermore wanted to understand the problems of memory caused by aging, believing that the aged brain experienced psychosis. Donald Hebb the psychiatrist who started the whole mess with his sensory deprivation experiments had even less kind things to say: "Cameron was irresponsible criminally stupid. After he left, his position as chair of the department of psychiatry was handed to Robert Cleghorn. Ian Donald Cameron is geboren in het jaar 1932 in Blairmore House, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, zoon van Ewen Donald CAMERON en Enid Agnes Maud LEVITA. [29], Sid Taylor stated that Cameron used curare to immobilise his patients during his research. Duncan: Oh yes, he enjoyed a good joke even if they were off color. Advancing Voluntary, Informed Consent to Medical Intervention, Cameron was an internationally prominent psychiatrist who developed torture techniques on his involuntary hospitalized patients mostly women. By that time, information on Cameron's sleep room projects was coming out, and there were all kinds of people who were very quick to distance themselves from it. And he has a much different memory of how it all went down. Think of all the books and the movies that are about mind control. And, until theres true accountability for what happened and what is still happening, it never will be. Shes also signed on to the class-action lawsuit against McGill University, the Canadian government, and the CIA. It's safe to say that the exact opposite happened. David Cameron's grandfather Ewen Donald Cameron (1906-1958) was a City of London figure who became a director at the stock brokerage house Panmure Gordon. Those were right out. Case of Gail Kastner: The shock treatment turned the then 19 year old honours student into a woman who sucked her thumb, talked like a baby, demanded to be fed from a bottle and urinated on the floor. At that point her affluent family abandoned her and she lived in poverty. And in that he took some risks, obviously. With the results of the Manhattan project, Cameron feared that without proper re-organization of society, atomic weapons could fall into the hands of new, fearsome aggressors. Donald Ewen Cameron 24 December 1901 - 8 September 1967)[1] was a Scottish-born psychiatrist. In the late 1940s, Cameron presented his ideas in a lecture entitled Dangerous Men and Women. Duncan: This is at the Lake Placid Club in Lake Placid, New York. Ben: Duncan Cameron was 10 years old when his dad became the Director of the Allan Memorial Institute in Montreal.
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