Alison believes those random phrases her mother would sometimes say were from the recordings that she'd been forced to listen to for hours. He began to develop the discipline of social psychiatry which concentrated on the roles of interpersonal interaction, family, community and culture in the emergence and amelioration of emotional disturbance. The only cure for mental illness, he theorized, was to eliminate its "carriers" from society altogether. He warned that government institutions should take measures against such potential liabilities. She said she received 12 boxes of her husbands papers after he died, but that, quote, If I had these papers, I wouldnt necessarily let you see them. Jean Steel was another one of Cameron's patients, and like the others she didn't sign up to be a part of MKUltra, depatterning, or psychic driving at all. And he has a much different memory of how it all went down. He died of a heart attack while climbing a mountain in the Adirondacks in 1967. And this is a picture up with my brother, Stuart. And they found his work next to worthless. Amory: Author Stephen Kinzer, who wrote the book about the CIA and Mind Control, says, after Vietnam, this same literature got used elsewhere. Donald Ewen Cameron was born in Bridge of Allan, Scotland, the oldest son of a Presbyterian minister. 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: Marians mom died three ago. Dr. Ewen Cameron wanted to win a Nobel Prize for his work in psychiatry. He served as president of the American Psychiatric Association (19521953), Canadian Psychiatric Association (19581959),[2] American Psychopathological Association (1963),[3] Society of Biological Psychiatry (1965)[4] and the World Psychiatric Association (19611966). He clearly had his mind set on doing unorthodox research long before the Agency front started to fund him. So we dont have access to Cameron's thoughts on his own legacy. "Now, that was a foolish mistake. I wasnt destroying documents. In other words, they really must have seen that there was something wrong and crazy. One of the weirdest chapters in U.S. history was approved on April 13, 1953, and any time anyone says anything about "the good ol' days," when things were just better, simpler, and kinder, well, point to MKUltra and say, "Check out this madness!" A Canadian government dismissed the CIAs role as a side issue or red herring; Ottawas Justice Department denied legal responsibility, offering each victim a nugatory $20,000 nuisance payment. He demanded that political systems be watched, and that German people needed to be monitored due to their "personality type", which he claimed results in the conditions that give rise to the dictatorial power of an authoritarian overlord. Alison Steel says her mother was never the same after undergoing. He wanted to know if it was possible to wipe a person's mind and reinstall a new personality. According to "Brainwashing's Avatar: The Curious Career of Dr. Ewen Cameron,"he left his position at Allan and his patients in 1964. Very different. The described types were the enemies of society and life. Although society had established sanctions against the spread of infectious diseases, Cameron wanted to extend the concept of contagion to chronic anxiety. Duncan: Talking about him, it should be easy, but sometimes it's sort of emotional. Ontario. A stronger personality would be able to maintain itself in heavy industrial situations, he theorised, while the weaker would not be able to cope with industrial conditions. [13], In 1945, Cameron, Nolan D. C. Lewis and Dr Paul L. Schroeder, colonel and psychiatrist, University College of Illinois, were invited to the Nuremberg trials for a psychiatric evaluation of Rudolf Hess. Rauh: So any documents that would show the treatment of the plaintiffs in this case were destroyed? Skip Ancestry main menu Main Menu. Amory: Nearly everyone who experienced Camerons treatments first-hand has since died. And you can see this manual that's been found all around the world, from hellholes to modern democracies. 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. I think he wanted to be famous. Duncan: He probably did, but I dont think I could remember the specifics of it. Police, hospitals, government, and schools would need to use the correct psychiatric authority to stop mental contagions from spreading. There is no incontinence, there is no mutism, and we are continuing this intense treatment of her until we get complete depatterning.". 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." Ex-husband of Enid Agnes Maud Watson. His work had led him to the belief that mental illness could be "cured" like, say, a broken hip might be rehabilitated. Duncan: I started work at the State Department just a day or so before Kennedy was assassinated. And in a lot of ways, modern psychiatry has completely left behind the man who once dominated its ranks. He was there when his legal partner, Joseph Rauh, took Camerons deposition. Montreal's CTV says that by the time she died in 2011, she had spent the last 20 years of her life as an "infant," unable to allow anyone near her head without a terrible reaction. 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." Duncan Cameron: This is a picture of the whole family. The second stage involved extreme, high voltage multiple electroshock treatments three times daily. The legacy can be seen in the torture techniques employed in Northern Ireland and in Guantanamo Bay. Ben: Did you ever get a sense of at least some of the things that he was trying to accomplish while he was at the Allan? Amory: But, Camerons extreme measures didnt result in a Nobel Prize or any mental health breakthroughs, which is why Harvey finds a certain poetry in his untimely death. Stephen Bennett: If I put one of you, either Ben or Amory, into prison for two, three years, you should be okay because you can have time and space. Peterborough County. Cleghorn immediately ended Camerons program. . There is no such thing as closure. in psychological medicine from the University of Glasgow in 1924, a D.P.M. North America. 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. Everyone who makes a monthly donation will get access to upcoming bonus content from the making of our series. Heres journalist John Marks. 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. And the funeral was yet another opportunity for Marian and her siblings to learn more about the mother who had been absent for so much of their childhoods. Psychiatric experimentation: the lessons or history, The Journal of the California Alliance for the Mentally Ill, 1994, Vol. Because his dad isnt around to do it himself. Skip . That's absolutely the stuff of a terrifying Netflix horror series, but it was very real and it destroyed an unknown number of lives. As the CBC notes, it's sourced pretty heavily from Cameron's work, and talks about things like "deprivation of sensory stimuli, threats and fear, pain, hypnosis and narcosis," and the source of their research? The line between fantasy and reality blurred. John Marks: The Allan Memorial Institute under Cleghorn commissioned a study of his work, which is absolutely or almost absolutely unprecedented in the psychiatric field. The lawsuits were dismissed, even though it was later shown there were a higher-than-usual number of people diagnosed with schizophrenia, presumably to increase Cameron's subject pool. Ben: About halfway through, Prosecutor Joseph Rauh starts quoting statements that Camerons wife Duncans mom made on the record. [citation needed][21]. But we do have his son, Duncan Cameron. Duncan: I'm Duncan Cameron. Duncan: This is at the Lake Placid Club in Lake Placid, New York. While he didn't name names or give specifics, he did say that papers "related to patients were destroyed.". 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. Hes in his mid-80s now. He moved to Upstate New York where he studied aging and memory at two hospitals in Albany. 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. Some would bang their heads against the walls relentlessly, trying to get the helmets off and that's when he realized he could just put them back into a medically-induced coma and play the tapes for as long as he wanted. Research genealogy for Donald Ewen Cameron of Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota, USA, as well as other members of the Cameron family, on Ancestry. And he was a fast driver. music, sound effects, tone) are harder to translate to text. She was not staying in this little town. He published a book called Remembering[18] and extended psychiatric links to human biology. His occupation was occupation. Traces of some survived, including documentation on Sub-project 42 also known as Operation Midnight Climax and sub-project 68. That was just something we wanted to get clarification on. And I think my father would have too. Duncan: Well, I think he was always fascinated in the future. 22 As the Watergate scandal broke in 1973, MKUltra was officially ordered to be shut down by the CIA. Just as Sigrid Schultz stated in Germany will try it again, Cameron fostered a fear for Germans and their genetic determination. If you haven't heard Parts 1 through 4 yet, you can find them here, here,here,and here. Duncan: It's really a very moving editorial. Indian River. And they are still being asked to by victims and their families, 60 years later. 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. 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. 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. And in that he took some risks, obviously. 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. You know, my job was to look out for the cops. He tried a variety of things, including multiple electroshock therapy sessions a day and massive doses of drugs including LSD. It's hardwired into the brain. Ben: Perhapsthis is Dr. Cameron's most enduring legacy. The U.S. wanted to know just how such a thing could possibly happen, and Dr. Ewen Cameron had a theory: brainwashing. ", "Brainwashing's Avatar: The Curious Career of Dr. Ewen Cameron,". And that kind of explains why, when they were ordered to stop their depatterning and psychic driving of patients, they just sort of didn't. Amory: In spite of Camerons ambition and prestige, he never helped find a cure for mental illness, he never won a Nobel Prize for psychiatry. There must have been records of experiments. The victims and their lawyers want us to remember that this story isnt over. McGill's then-director of psychology, Dr. Donald Hebb, took the money and set up experiments using his ready-and-waiting pool of test subjects: students. Father, Son and CIA by Harvey Weinstein p. 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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. 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. You can see other fellow humans. 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. And he didn't achieve that either. He began his career as resident surgeon at Glasgow Infirmary, but in 1929 moved to Canada to work in the Brandon Mental Hospital. 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. Amory: And I think you may have given a deposition for that. She said that at the time, Cameron was something of a celebrity. The Canadian government also funded the project. Dr. Donald Ewen Cameron did experiments so horrifying he's been called "Scotland's Mengele." Here's why MKUltra's top brainwashing scientist was a nightmare. 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. In 2020, director Stephen Bennett released "Eminent Monsters," a film that examined the link between Cameron's work and the torture techniques used by organizations around the world, including the CIA. Advancing Voluntary, Informed Consent to Medical Intervention, Cameron was an internationally prominent psychiatrist who developed torture techniques on his involuntary hospitalized patients mostly women. Her life was sad. Ben: Sure, but I mean, in terms of trying to help cure people of mental illness or anything like that, not necessarily his process, but his end goal. 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., Amory: The CIA also turned its back on Cameron. . Maybe the people responsible are waiting for all of us to forget. And when you get up to the top, its completely wooded, so theres no panoramic view after all the hard climbing. And how his work lives on. In this, he hoped to establish a suitable method to reinstate a form of justice in Germany that could prevent its society from recreating the attitudes that led it from the Great War to World War II. 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. And I think you have, as much as love that you had for him you also had respect for him. 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. Ben: Sure. And here I am looking much younger than I am now. 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. Duncan: They got close to the top and James looked around and my father had passed away. Amory: We definitely will. If you want that too, we would deeply appreciate your contribution to our work in any amount. They had 11 children: Allan Francis Cameron, John Donald Cameron and 9 other children. We want to hear from you! In addition to LSD, he experimented with various paralytic drugs such as curare and electroconvulsive therapy at thirty to forty times the normal power. You know, all of us not only respected him, but loved him, and not just myself, but my brothers. It petered out in the early 60s as the programs director, Sidney Gottlieb, came to a realization. In 1928, Cameron left Baltimore for the Burghlzli, the psychiatric hospital of the University of Zurich, in Switzerland, where he studied under Hans W. Maier, the successor of Swiss psychiatrist Eugen Bleuler, who had significantly influenced psychiatric thinking. Despite the horrific abuse, the American and Canadian psychiatric establishment closed ranks. They were destroyed. Were they *destroyed* or did you just take the patients name out? Cameron began to explore how industrial conditions could satisfy the population through work and what kind of person or worker is best suited to industrial conditions. And he always had a little book of science fiction by the bedside. Amory: In the early 60s, MK-ULTRA director Sidney Gottlieb took the so-called treatments Cameron used on his patients at the Allan and brought them back to the CIA. Duncan: Thats my recollection, that any documents that related to patients were destroyed. She never did get her children back. (Rubenstein LS. [citation needed]. A notoriously tough climb, he did it with his son James, and when he got to the top, he had a heart attack and died almost instantly. He died three years later. In 1951 a few years before the U.S. government and the CIA approved MKUltra there was a top secret meeting held at Montreal's Ritz-Carlton. Harvey Weinstein: Complicated question, we all have motivations for the things that we do. (Beyond Nuremburg, ABA Journal March 1997; News accounts of five legal cases at: The Law and Mind Control Mind Control Through Five Cases). Not, at least, until well into 1965, months after they were told to end the experiments. In some cases, the same phrases reappear all through these. Who hasnt talked about this in a long time. My recollection was that I wasn't able to provide him with much information that he didn't already have. 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. Cameron viewed German society throughout history as continually giving rise to fearsome aggression. Cameron's work stopped when she gave birth, and Lloyd remembered a broken mother. It is true. From 1939 to 1943 he was professor of neurology and psychiatry at Albany Medical College, and at the Russell Sage School of Nursing, also in the Albany area. There are a few ways to reach us: This content was originally created for audio. Cameron began to base some of his notions on race, as is seen in his theories regarding the German people. Results were telling: They became super sensitive to the sensory stimuli they did receive, and then, things started getting really weird. His list of credentials was so long it's impossible to list them all, but for starters, his resume included the University of Glasgow and Johns Hopkins, and in the 1930s, he was lauded for setting up a series of psychiatric clinics. Unfortunately, a lot of what went on within them has been lost: In 1973, the majority of the documents associated with MKUltra were destroyed in a massive (and not-at-all-suspicious) purge. Sign up and be the first to find out the latest news and articles about what's going on in the medical field. The FBI's FOIA Library contains many files of public interest and historical value. Ben: But, as human experiments at the Allan Memorial Institute, and MK-ULTRAs mind control efforts, fade into history, reduced to references in tv shows and video game plot points, there are troubling examples of these techniques still in use today. Amory: Sarahs grandmother, Val, sued the CIA forty years ago for supporting Dr. Camerons work at the Allan. It has to do with another of his Adirondack hikes that changed the Cameron family forever. And people talk about the transmission of trauma through generations. [citation needed] Characteristics were thus diagnosed as syndromes emerging from the brain. In his 1946 paper entitled "Frontiers of Social Psychiatry", he used the case of World War II Germany as an example where society poisoned the minds of citizens by creating a general anxiety or neurosis.[19]. And he was always very fascinated by what the future held for us all. Amory: Dr. Ewen Cameron will never be able to respond to the intergenerational trauma created by his work. Cameron focused primarily on biological descriptive psychiatry and applied the British and European schools and models of the practice. They stressed how they'd been unwilling participants, and that they'd gone to the institute for other issues. What started as short-term depression before the Allan, morphed into chronic depression, as well as diagnosed schizophrenia and bipolar disorder afterwards. Did it work? Allan Cameron. Like Freud, Cameron maintained that the family was the nucleus of social behavior and anxieties later in life were spawned during childhood. A possessive type, filled with jealousy and demanding utmost loyalty. I'm the oldest son of Dr. Donald Ewen Cameron and Jean Cameron. sister. The lawsuits were dismissed, even though it was later shown . v USA, 1988] Tom Beauchamp, a leading American bioethicist was an expert witness for Camerons estate, arguing that Camerons treatment complied with the norm and practice of the day. And he put Camerons treatment program under the microscope. (McCoy, 2007), According to Leonard Rubenstein, an attorney for plaintiffs [Mrs. David Orlikow et al. 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. You can buy the full book for only . Ben: But the Canadian and US governments could take accountability for their support of Cameron. Ben: But some key documentation of Camerons time at the Allan is straight up missing. Hebb who did pay the students for their participation basically put them in a room for 24 hours, in a set-up that deprived them of all sensory input. Cameron began his training in psychiatry at the Glasgow Royal Mental Hospital in 1925. And these are pictures of him, these are both in the Adirondack Mountains. You have been subscribed to WBUR Today. Donald Ewen Cameron (19011967) was born in Scotland in 1901 and graduated from the University of Glasgow in 1924. 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. He spoke about Germans, but also to the larger portion of the society that resembled or associated with such traits. And, until theres true accountability for what happened and what is still happening, it never will be. Ben: But do you even though you had nothing to do with it do you have any feelings of sadness about those folks and what they've gone through? And Mary Morrow? It's Boston local news in one concise, fun and informative email. Hebb submitted his findings to the CIA, and it ended up being just the beginning. Patients were tested in the Radio Telemetry Laboratory, which was built under Cameron's direction. Husband of Marielene Schlumberger. 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. And one of these risks was the treatment that he was using. Marian: There was a picture of my mom there and somebody commented, Ugh that's the Johanna that's her name I remember. And my sister looked at him and said, But what was she like? 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). 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. His goal was to standardize his treatment, and once he did it for schizophrenia, he believed he would open a "gateway through which we might pass into a new field of psychotherapeutic methods." AIan Cameron followed in the footsteps of his father and became a director at Panmure Gordon in 1957. That's how quick it is because it removes your time and space. He didn't pull punches, saying, "We hanged Nazis for doing the sort of things Cameron did.". Photo by Courtesy of Julie Tanny For the first four years of Julie Tanny's. Cameron's concerns extended to his policies determining who should have children and advance to positions of authority. And in that sense, I think his ambition overrode his skills and his ability to do the research. 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