He published a book called Remembering[18] and extended psychiatric links to human biology. 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. I mean, he was that much of a scientist. Duncan: I'm Duncan Cameron. Cameron focused primarily on biological descriptive psychiatry and applied the British and European schools and models of the practice. We collect and match historical records that Ancestry users have contributed to their family trees to create each person's profile. Psychiatry would play a disciplinary role. 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. Amory: Marians mom died three ago. [6] Decades after his own death, the psychic driving technique he developed continued to see extensive use in the torture of prisoners around the world. Amory: What was your father like as a dad? Agnes was born in 1844, in Richmond Victoria Australia. He had a Mercedes. Cregg: What do you know about mind-control experiments? Duncan: Oh yes, he enjoyed a good joke even if they were off color. Being compared to the Nazi's most notorious doctor probably isn't the life goal of most medical professionals, so let's look at what he did to deserve this dubious title. 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." 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. 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: Thats my recollection, that any documents that related to patients were destroyed. So we dont have access to Cameron's thoughts on his own legacy. In 1946, Cameron introduced the practice of the day hospital, the first of its kind in North America, permitting patients to remain at home while receiving treatment at the institute during the day, thus avoiding unnecessary hospitalization and allowing the patients to maintain ties with their community and family. Not all the time, but it's always there. They were destroyed. He also organized the structure of mental health services in the western half of the province, establishing 10 functioning clinics; this model was used as the blueprint for similar efforts in Montreal and a forerunner of 1960s community health models. sister. People Projects Discussions Surnames . Duncan: This is at the Lake Placid Club in Lake Placid, New York. The last generation of Holocaust survivors and their children express their concerns about current events A Five-Part, FDA Advisory Panel & CDC Director are Complicit in Sacrificing Childrens Lives to Protect Pfizer from Liability, Copyright 2023 Alliance for Human Research Protection, 1950s1960s: Dr. Ewen Cameron Destroyed Minds at Allan Memorial Hospital in Montreal, Law and Mind Control Mind Control Through Five Cases, Vera Sharavs documentary Never Again is Now Global now available. Now, a recent court decision has. And I think you have, as much as love that you had for him you also had respect for him. You know, my job was to look out for the cops. Amory: You're welcome to pull it out now. The paper stated that German culture and its people would have offspring bound to become a threat to world peace in 30 years. Toby Ziegler:In the '50s, it was the CIA mind control research program begun in response to the Chinese attempt on U.S. prisoners. [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.' 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. Heres John Marks again. He spoke about Germans, but also to the larger portion of the society that resembled or associated with such traits. "He was this miracle psychiatrist," she said. 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? Josh Crane Twitter Producer, Podcasts & New ProgramsJosh is a producer for podcasts and new programs at WBUR. Ben: Duncan Cameron was 10 years old when his dad became the Director of the Allan Memorial Institute in Montreal. Ewen married Agnes Cameron (born Bell) in 1867, at age 35 at marriage place. I mean his father was a very prominent psychiatrist, so destroying rather than preserving personal papers of someone of that prominence is a very unusual thing, especially for a family member to have done. Not only was Ewen Cameron running the Allan Memorial, but he was leading psychiatric organizations, he was teaching at McGill University, and he was still seeing private patients. 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. [17] Cameron argued that it was necessary for behavioral scientists to act as the social planners of society, and that the United Nations could provide a conduit for implementing his ideas for applying psychiatric elements to global governance and politics. Ben: Jims right. Those who are privileged to know him, even briefly, will not soon forget the warmth and kindliness of this understanding man.. 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. Results were telling: They became super sensitive to the sensory stimuli they did receive, and then, things started getting really weird. Ben Brock Johnson: So what do you have in front of you here? 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. Ben: When Amory and I spoke to Duncan Cameron about his dad, he also told us about his own work, as a lawyer. Canada's McGill University has owned up to the part it played in MKUltra's Sub-project 68, and they say that it really started before Dr. Ewen Cameron even got involved. In addition to LSD, he experimented with various paralytic drugs such as curare and electroconvulsive therapy at thirty to forty times the normal power. 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. Donald Ewen Cameron ((1901-12-24)24 December 1901 (1967-09-08)8 September 1967)[1] was a Scottish-born psychiatrist. 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. [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. She went from apartment to apartment, mental hospital to mental hospital. Canada. [30][bettersourceneeded], In 1980, the Canadian investigative news program The Fifth Estate interviewed two former patients of Cameron's who were among several of his ex patients who were at that time suing the CIA for the long term effects of Cameron's treatment. [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. There must have been names of patients. Those were right out. Yeah so it was sad. Ben: But Duncan is still, in some ways, trying to defend his dads honor. And that seemed to us to be a highly questionable action for someone to take. "[H]e was born in. Amory: He doesnt explicitly say that he was the one who did the destroying. He tried a variety of things, including multiple electroshock therapy sessions a day and massive doses of drugs including LSD. Cameron reported to John Gittinger, an agent in charge of overseeing parts of MKUltra. He has an open, amused look on his face. During those years, Cameron began to expand on his thoughts about the interrelationships of mind and body, developing a reputation as a psychiatrist who could bridge the gap between the organic, structural neurologists, and the psychiatrists whose knowledge of anatomy was limited to maps of the mind as opposed to maps of the brain. 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. 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. He was always interested in the future. 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. Like Freud, Cameron maintained that the family was the nucleus of social behavior and anxieties later in life were spawned during childhood. Traces of some survived, including documentation on Sub-project 42 also known as Operation Midnight Climax and sub-project 68. Marian Cameron. 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? And in a lot of ways, modern psychiatry has completely left behind the man who once dominated its ranks. In 1963, the CIA published the Kubark Counterintelligence Interrogation manual, and that's exactly what it sounds like guidelines on how to get people to talk. Don't worry, it gets worse. Ben: Perhapsthis is Dr. Cameron's most enduring legacy. . Duncan: They got close to the top and James looked around and my father had passed away. Dr. Ewen Cameron wanted to win a Nobel Prize for his work in psychiatry. Very different. Pregnant with son Lloyd, Esther was kept in a drug-induced coma in the sleep room for a month, where she lost 13 pounds. In fact, he might have enjoyed those more. The mentally ill were thus labelled as not only sick, but also weak. Cameron followed these schools in demanding that mental disturbances are diseases and somatic in nature; all psychological illness would therefore be hardwired, a product of the body and the direct result of a patient's biological structure rather than caused by social environments. Research genealogy for Donald Ewen Cameron of Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota, USA, as well as other members of the Cameron family, on Ancestry. If I put you through this program, within 24 hours to 48 hours you'll be in a diagnosable psychotic state. Click here for the donation page. Ironically, his lasting impact would be on how to destroy the human mind, not how to repair it. He told The Scotsman: "Cameron's entire focus seemed to shift after the Nuremberg Trials. [1] In papers published during this time he linked RNA to memory. The idea was to first "depattern" the person in question. . And I recall going through them and *taking out* several papers that appeared to me to be identified or could be identified as dealing with a particular patient. In this manner, somatic causes could be compared. Just as Sigrid Schultz stated in Germany will try it again, Cameron fostered a fear for Germans and their genetic determination. He promoted a philosophy where chaos could be prevented by removing the weak from society. Duncan: Well, I didnt destroy the documents. Cameron became the first director of the Allan Memorial Institute as well as the first chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at McGill. Duncan: Not really, I certainly don't know anything about the treatments he was using, I didnt know anything about that. Amory: Theres a reason that all the photos of Ewen Cameron are from more than 50 years ago. Donald Hebb and Ewen Cameron were competitors; they did not collaborate, though Cameron incorporated Hebbs sensory isolation techniques into his own diabolical arsenal of psychiatrys instruments of torture. The FBI's FOIA Library contains many files of public interest and historical value. He served as president of the American Psychiatric Association , Canadian Psychiatric Association ,[2] American Psychopathological Association . 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 Amory: Dr. Ewen Cameron will never be able to respond to the intergenerational trauma created by his work. She said: "She wasn't able to talk to me about life and regular stuff. The CBC says the CIA recruited Dr. Ewen Cameron a few years into MKUltra, using the Society for the Investigation of Human Ecology to approach Cameron and tell him that he really, really needed to apply for one of their grants. Please note . In the late 1940s, Cameron presented his ideas in a lecture entitled Dangerous Men and Women. There's Edgar Allan Poe stories and Sherlock Holmes stories. 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. 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. We were unable to subscribe you to WBUR Today. In 1933, he married Jean C. Rankine, whom he had met while they were students at the University of Glasgow. Other similar psychiatric diagnoses of Germany were published during this time. My recollection was that I wasn't able to provide him with much information that he didn't already have. Velma Orlikow, for instance, was dealing with postpartum depression. The line between fantasy and reality blurred. 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? Indian River. Amory: Duncan knows how to be very careful about what he says. Ben: He looks like hes having a good time. I'm sure that they loved him very much and knew him in a very different way. John Marks: There must have been clinical documents. They had 11 children: Allan Francis Cameron, John Donald Cameron and 9 other children. 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. And here I am looking much younger than I am now. 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. The goal, says CBC, was to reduce the patient to what was called a "childlike state," with some people destroyed so completely that they could no longer walk, talk, or dress themselves Shoelaces? His version was a continuous-loop cassette player that would deliver messages on repeat and it's even worse than it sounds. In some cases, applicants couldn't prove the conditions they currently lived with were a direct result of what they went through at Allan, and in others, they were treated outside of the time frame. Police, hospitals, government, and schools would need to use the correct psychiatric authority to stop mental contagions from spreading. She never did get her children back. He died of a heart attack while climbing a mountain in the Adirondacks in 1967. Amory: This is from The Adirondack Daily Enterprise, is the name of the paper. Ben: But some key documentation of Camerons time at the Allan is straight up missing. He actually has a smile. Lloyd Schrier, son of Cameron patient Esther Schrier, told the CBC, "Oh, 'He was God-like,' they would say." And there some of them were high risk ones. 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. That's how quick it is because it removes your time and space. He warned that government institutions should take measures against such potential liabilities. They fear the stranger, they fear the new idea; they are afraid to live, and scared to die." Cameron also wanted to revolutionize the way psychology and psychiatry looked at mental illness. According to The Washington Post, Cameron was recruited in 1957, and he was a big deal. Did it work? 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. 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. Rauh: So any documents that would show the treatment of the plaintiffs in this case were destroyed? 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. Marian: It's become so embedded in our narrative, in our pop culture, without people really understanding that it happened It was real. Lloyd has continued to fight for recognition, recompense, and an apology. Two of my sons are lawyers and they say it isnt a good idea.. 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. We collect and match historical records that Ancestry users have contributed to their family trees to create each person's profile. His occupation was occupation. As soon as his family found out about his death, they burned all the files that this man kept in his possession. It's safe to say that the exact opposite happened. He commuted from Lake Placid, New York to Montreal every week to work at McGill's Allan Memorial Institute and was paid $69,000 from 1957 to 1964 to carry out MKUltra experiments there, known as the Montreal experiments. While he didn't name names or give specifics, he did say that papers "related to patients were destroyed.". [citation needed]. The Canadian government also funded the project. 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. And this is a picture up with my brother, Stuart. [citation needed]. Donald Ewen Cameron was the key figure in the Montreal experiments. 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. The lawsuits were dismissed, even though it was later shown . He furthered his diagnostic definitions of clinical states such as anxiety, depression and schizophrenia. This third type needs, This page was last edited on 16 February 2023, at 19:10. Operating under the umbrella of MKUltra were as many as 162 sub-projects, with as many as 80 different organizations involved in research. 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. That was just something we wanted to get clarification on. What Hebb and Cameron both have in common is their contribution in establishing the scientific foundation for CIAs two-stage psychological torture method. Birthdate: June 04, 1906. 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. Experts must develop methods of forcefully changing attitudes and beliefs to prevent the authoritarian overlord. 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. In Cameron, the CIA had a psychiatrist, conveniently outside the United States, who was willing to do terminal experiments in electroshock, sensory deprivation, drug testing, and all of the above combined. 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 is largely known today for his central role in unethical medical experiments, and development of psychological and medical torture techniques for the CIA. Both of her brothers were heavily into drugs by the age of 10 and dealt with serious mental illness throughout their lives. Amory: They bounced around between foster homes and orphanages for years, experienced emotional and physical abuse. Because it would seem to me, or I was concerned as a lawyer, that it might be a breach of the patient-doctor privilege. Who hasnt talked about this in a long time. Care of his patients went to his assistants, and here's where things get even weirder. He was there when his legal partner, Joseph Rauh, took Camerons deposition. 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. Duncan: He loved hiking. Memories are not the most reliable form of evidence. Therefore, society should function to select out the weak and unwanted, those apt towards fearsome aggression that threatened society. The extent of Goldberg's treatment - or mistreatment - while in the care of Dr. Donald Ewen Cameron at the Allan Memorial Institute, would remain an encumbering family secret for years. Donald Ewen Cameron was born in Bridge of Allan, Scotland, the oldest son of a Presbyterian minister. Ben: Today we grapple with Dr. Ewen Camerons legacy. Cameron believed that mental illness was literally contagious that if one came into contact with someone with mental illness, one would begin to produce the symptoms of a mental disease. Were they *destroyed* or did you just take the patients name out? Ben: Which brings us back to a question that no one can answer why did Dr. Cameron do what he did? In his analysis, German culture was made up of people who had the need for status, worshipped strict order and regimentation, desired authoritarian leadership and had a deeply ingrained fear of other countries. And in a sense, that's what he wanted to do professionally. Particularly because we put that question to him today. According to The Guardian, it started with playing tapes designed to tap into the reason the patient sought help in the first place. 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". Memorials. Amory: This is a hard reality for the family that Ewen Cameron left behind. Ben: Over and over, weve heard from victims of Dr. Ewen Camerons brutal experiments at the Allan Memorial Institute. . And he put Camerons treatment program under the microscope. Duncan: You see, he doesn't have a scowl. Ewen Donald Cameron. 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. He graduated from the University of Glasgow in 1924. 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. 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