Advertisement. And I feel for them for that. Thus, this group would have to be studied and controlled as a contagious social disease. Duncan: Not really, I certainly don't know anything about the treatments he was using, I didnt know anything about that. We were unable to subscribe you to WBUR Today. . Yeah so it was sad. On March 10, Cameron's notes read: "She is disoriented as to time only and is probably in her second stage of depatterning. Traces of some survived, including documentation on Sub-project 42 also known as Operation Midnight Climax and sub-project 68. 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. In 1936, he moved to Massachusetts to become director of the research division at Worcester State Hospital only 1 year later. 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. Ben: Perhapsthis is Dr. Cameron's most enduring legacy. I'm sure that they loved him very much and knew him in a very different way. So why havent they? There must have been names of patients. After his treatments patients were unable to function; they had been reduced to a state of infancy. 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. Cameron viewed German society throughout history as continually giving rise to fearsome aggression. 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. 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. His version was a continuous-loop cassette player that would deliver messages on repeat and it's even worse than it sounds. Research genealogy for Donald Ewen Cameron of lambeth, as well as other members of the Cameron family, on Ancestry. ", 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. Its not a very popular mountain to climb, its steep. He argued that people with mental illnesses could spread and transmit their diseases. And he didn't achieve that either. 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 came up with the idea that if he presented the world and confronted the Germans with the atrocities committed during the war, the world and the Germans would refrain from repeated acts of extreme aggression. Rauh: A question that Mr. Turner wanted me to ask was what happened to the papers identifying the patients? His focus on children included the rights to protection against outmoded, doctrinaire tactics, and the necessity for the implantation of taboos and inhibitions from their parents. . Duncan: You see, he doesn't have a scowl. Ben: But there is reason to believe that these documents arent just missing. 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. 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. So I think the complaints of the doctors and nurses had reached their ears. Abruptly and unexpectedly, Dr. Cameron suffered a life-ending heart attack while mountain climbing in 1967. As time has worn on, its become the families of those victims who shoulder the burden. Ewen Cameron was fulfilling one of the items on his life bucket list: to climb Street Mountain. And how his work lives on. The program is widely believed to have been partly funded by the United States Central Intelligence Agency as part of their top-secret MKULTRA program. All Germans on trial would be assessed according to the likeliness for committing the crime. 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. 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. [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. Ben: Street Mountain is a strange choice for a bucket list. Amory: They bounced around between foster homes and orphanages for years, experienced emotional and physical abuse. 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? [clarification needed] Those Germans affected by the events that led to World War II were of utmost concern. Though he did visit the Allan Memorial on occasion. Peterborough County. 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. Ewen married Agnes Cameron (born Bell) in 1867, at age 35 at marriage place. Think of all the books and the movies that are about mind control. More about the Cameron family name; Sponsored by Ancestry. Ben Brock Johnson: So what do you have in front of you here? Cleghorn immediately ended Camerons program. 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. Hij is getrouwd met (Niet openbaar), ze kregen 1 kind. 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. I'm sure part of him very much wanted to be the person who cures mental illness. 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 only cure for mental illness, he theorized, was to eliminate its "carriers" from society altogether. A series of other research scandals in the 1960s resulted in stricter regulation of research practices and a more stringent code of ethics. The Canadian government also funded the project. music, sound effects, tone) are harder to translate to text. That right there is getting into some shady territory, but the promise of a $10,000 grant the equivalent of just over $100,000 today had to be pretty tempting. And in a lot of ways, modern psychiatry has completely left behind the man who once dominated its ranks. And people talk about the transmission of trauma through generations. You have been subscribed to WBUR Today. 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. Amory: Duncan has a very different picture of his father, a whole bunch of them actually. Rauh: --Well, I will put it another way. So we dont have access to Cameron's thoughts on his own legacy. He had various people record the tapes sometimes including the patient's loved ones and it was, on the whole, incredibly traumatizing. Because it would seem to me, or I was concerned as a lawyer, that it might be a breach of the patient-doctor privilege. And they found his work next to worthless. 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. Ironically, his lasting impact would be on how to destroy the human mind, not how to repair it. 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. Cameron began to abandon the Freudian unconscious in favour of a social constructivist's view of mental illness. And this is a picture up with my brother, Stuart. Duncan: Yes. Velma Orlikow, for instance, was dealing with postpartum depression. Jim: But again, you know, the deposition transcript, you're going to have to rely on that, like we did. Not, at least, until well into 1965, months after they were told to end the experiments. He died of a heart attack while climbing a mountain in the Adirondacks in 1967. Or answer questions about his motivations, whether or not he knew he was part of the CIAs mind control efforts. He has an open, amused look on his face. He never got one. 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. Another patient was suffering from leg pains that no one had been able to diagnose. The second stage involved extreme, high voltage multiple electroshock treatments three times daily. For Cameron, the traits were contagions and anyone affected by the societal, cultural or personality forms would themselves be infected. Donald Ewen Cameron was the key figure in the Montreal experiments. 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. Sign up and be the first to find out the latest news and articles about what's going on in the medical field. Cameron stayed there for seven years and was made physician-in-charge of the Reception Unit of the Provincial Mental Hospital. 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." Amory: Author Stephen Kinzer, who wrote the book about the CIA and Mind Control, says, after Vietnam, this same literature got used elsewhere. 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. That's how quick it is because it removes your time and space. And you can see this manual that's been found all around the world, from hellholes to modern democracies. 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. 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. [25], Cameron had been hoping to correct schizophrenia by "erasing" existing memories and "reprogramming" the psyche. Because his dad isnt around to do it himself. Police, hospitals, government, and schools would need to use the correct psychiatric authority to stop mental contagions from spreading. And here I am looking much younger than I am now. Ben: Robert Cleghorn, a former member of Camerons staff, took over after Cameron stepped down. Sarah Anne Johnson: I imagine this is very difficult for his family. Donald Ewen Cameron 24 December 1901 - 8 September 1967)[1] was a Scottish-born psychiatrist. Cameron began to develop broader theories of society, new concepts of human relations to replace concepts he deemed dangerous and outdated. 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. There is no such thing as closure. Amory: Theres a reason that all the photos of Ewen Cameron are from more than 50 years ago. "He was supposed to do wonders with people with depression or mental health issues." Psychiatry would play a disciplinary role. And they haven't been super successful. Don't worry, it gets worse. He clearly had his mind set on doing unorthodox research long before the Agency front started to fund him. A possessive type, filled with jealousy and demanding utmost loyalty. By literally wiping the minds of his subjects clean by depatterning and then trying to program in new behavior, Cameron carried the process known as brainwashing to its logical extreme., The dehumanizing nature of his methods were published in premier medical journals without any complaints from other psychiatrists; Cameron read papers about depatterning with electroshock before meetings of his fellow psychiatrists; and they rewarded him, electing him president of the American, Canadian, and World Psychiatric Associations. Under that program, more than 80,000 suspected North Vietnamese sympathizers were interrogated by US forces and their allies. Ben: OK. Fair. Old '45" Cameron Major Cameron (1663 - 1718) family tree on Geni, with over 230 million profiles of ancestors and living relatives. Their diagnosis was amnesia and hysteria, per a short commentary in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Cameron titled this procedure "intrapsychic" (a term derived from the psycho-somatic relationship of hospital patients). Skip . He theorized that attitudes and beliefs should reinforce the overall attitudes of the desired society. Did it work? [5], Cameron was involved in administering electroconvulsive therapy and experimental drugs, including poisons such as curare and hallucinogens such as lysergic acid diethylamide, to patients and prisoners without their knowledge or informed consent. As for the ongoing lawsuits, some of the plaintiffs have actually contacted Duncan wondering if hed be willing to support their efforts. Cameron quickly found patients didn't want to listen to the messages. 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. Ben: Hebb did an interview with a film producer in the 1980s, saying, quote, Cameron was irresponsible criminally stupid. Although society had established sanctions against the spread of infectious diseases, Cameron wanted to extend the concept of contagion to chronic anxiety. That could be heightened with various drugs, eventually was replaced by positive messages, and the so-called "psychic driving" would continue. Cameron used his ideas to implement policies on who should govern and parent in society. ", And what about the CIA, who had approved and funded the research in the first place? 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 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 idea was turning the mind into a fresh slate for the next part of the process, called "psychic driving.". 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. 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. The manual got updated in 1980, but the techniques that have come about including things like waterboarding and restraint in a "coffin-like wooden box" still harken back to that original research. 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. In this manner, somatic causes could be compared. Duncan: Talking about him, it should be easy, but sometimes it's sort of emotional. Ben: Jims right. Despite the horrific abuse, the American and Canadian psychiatric establishment closed ranks. The U.S. wanted to know just how such a thing could possibly happen, and Dr. Ewen Cameron had a theory: brainwashing. Her life was sad. 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. Those who are privileged to know him, even briefly, will not soon forget the warmth and kindliness of this understanding man.. That was the case for people like Phyllis Goldberg. This third type needs, This page was last edited on 16 February 2023, at 19:10. 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. The psychological experimentation project, known as MK Ultra, was allegedly funded by the Canadian government and the United States Central Intelligence Agency. And he was always very fascinated by what the future held for us all. Ben: But Duncan is still, in some ways, trying to defend his dads honor. He received an M.B., Ch.B. His work had led him to the belief that mental illness could be "cured" like, say, a broken hip might be rehabilitated. Joseph Rauh (from the transcript): But as far as you know now, neither you nor your brother or sister or mother have *any* papers left that are not sort of public documents? Like in Nicaragua, where he was The New York Times Bureau Chief. Cameron focused primarily on biological descriptive psychiatry and applied the British and European schools and models of the practice. To see some of the things that have happened are very upsetting. There's Edgar Allan Poe stories and Sherlock Holmes stories. [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. Ian Donald Cameron is geboren in het jaar 1932 in Blairmore House, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, zoon van Ewen Donald CAMERON en Enid Agnes Maud LEVITA. Today, we're talking to one of the only people who will stand up for Dr. Cameron. ", Why MKUltra's Top Brainwashing Scientist Was A Real-Life Nightmare, "Brainwashing's Avatar: The Curious Career of Dr. Ewen Cameron. And Camerons part of that. If you want that too, we would deeply appreciate your contribution to our work in any amount. Ben: Which brings us back to a question that no one can answer why did Dr. Cameron do what he did? And he has a much different memory of how it all went down. [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. Amory: He remembers his dad working a lot during this time, which, definitely tracks. Ben: He looks like hes having a good time. 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. 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. "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. Psychiatric experimentation: the lessons or history, The Journal of the California Alliance for the Mentally Ill, 1994, Vol. 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. [23][24] He is unrelated to another CIA psychiatrist, Alan S. Cameron, who helped pioneer psychological profiling of world leaders during the 1970s and was not associated with the behavioral modification research program. 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. Duncan: Well, that's a big subject. Here in the hospital Cameron could observe how the psychiatric patient resembled patients with other diseases that were not psychiatric in nature. While he didn't name names or give specifics, he did say that papers "related to patients were destroyed.". with distinction from the University of Glasgow in 1936. Heres journalist John Marks. And he was searching for ways of doing something about them. 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. Ben: Sure. About 55 families of victims who underwent medical experimentation in the 1950s and 1960s are suing for millions of dollars. Duncan: They got close to the top and James looked around and my father had passed away. Duncan: I have no recollection whether there were any papers relating to any of the--. Patients were tested in the Radio Telemetry Laboratory, which was built under Cameron's direction. I wasnt destroying documents. She was gonna go out there and do something. And it was a great shock to everybody because he was 65 and in many ways, you know, going full throttle and at the top of his career. "[H]e was born in. 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. Donald Ewen Cameron was born in Bridge of Allen, a small town in Scotland, on December 24, 1901. You can buy the full book for only . Theres no clear approach to the summit only overgrown pathways. Hebb submitted his findings to the CIA, and it ended up being just the beginning. In some cases, the same phrases reappear all through these. We put this to Harvey Weinstein, the psychiatrist we heard from earlier, whose father was a patient at the Allan. Cameron was born on December 24, 1901, in Scotland and graduated from the University of Glasgow in 1924. It describes various personalities that he believed were of marked danger to all members of society. Everyone who makes a monthly donation will get access to upcoming bonus content from the making of our series. [16], Cameron next published Nuremberg and Its Significance. And you see this actual physical manual on how to break down the human mind. 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. I'm the oldest son of Dr. Donald Ewen Cameron and Jean Cameron. Ben: Camerons research could never happen today at least not lawfully. And I think it affected a lot more people than anybody even realizes today. You can see other fellow humans. Duncan: This is at the Lake Placid Club in Lake Placid, New York. 3.99 His response? 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. Amory: What we know of Camerons work comes from family accounts like Marian's, a few hard-won medical documents, and detailed descriptions of his techniques from his own journal articles and speeches. Joseph Rauh Jr. was one of the attorneys that represented the group who filed lawsuits in the mid-1980s. He received an M.B., Ch.B. Cameron's work was funded under MKUltra's subproject 68. . Duncan: I think the furthest I got was to his office. [citation needed]. Lloyd has continued to fight for recognition, recompense, and an apology. Canada. [citation needed][21]. 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? 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. Indian River. Cameron started to distinguish populations between "the weak" and "the strong". Amory: The answer might be in the idea of brainwashing itself. Her family sued, first based on the treatment alone, then again, after discovering she was a part of the MKUltra program. And we would take off. Her niece later said, "She had electric shock equipment put on her head so many times that it [remained] in her subconscious." The paper stated that German culture and its people would have offspring bound to become a threat to world peace in 30 years. Cameron Cemetery. According to The Guardian, it started with playing tapes designed to tap into the reason the patient sought help in the first place. Harvey Weinstein: Complicated question, we all have motivations for the things that we do. In theory, he was supposed to help her anxiety, depression, and postpartum depression. Duncan: Well, I think that I would feel sad about that. [38], Cameron died of a heart attack while hiking with his son in the Adirondack Mountains on September 8, 1967. Ewen Cameron made the hike with Duncans younger brother, James. We hope you enjoyed reading this excerpt from this mini book on the Scottish history of the Cameron family. They were destroyed. (McCoy, 2007), According to Leonard Rubenstein, an attorney for plaintiffs [Mrs. David Orlikow et al. 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). In 1938 he received his diploma in psychiatry and became professor of neurology, psychiatry at University at . (laughter). If he had a choice he would have kept living forever. Were they *destroyed* or did you just take the patients name out? Duncan: Thats my recollection, that any documents that related to patients were destroyed. (Rubenstein LS. Ben: The manual was all about how to obtain information from quote resistant sources. It went on to become the basis for the Phoenix Program during the Vietnam War. Sounds questionable? Ben: As for the CIAs MK-ULTRA program itself, it never had an official end date. Amory: And I think you may have given a deposition for that. Amory: Dr. Ewen Cameron will never be able to respond to the intergenerational trauma created by his work. 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!" His brutal techniques involved a three-stage method for brainwashing in order to eliminate the will and establish control: first, mental depatterning achieved through drug-induced coma; massive neuroleptic drug cocktails induced extended sleep lasting up to eighty-six days. Skip Ancestry main menu Main Menu. The sick were, for Cameron, the viral infection to its stability and health. Cameron began his training in psychiatry at the Glasgow Royal Mental Hospital in 1925. Alison believes those random phrases her mother would sometimes say were from the recordings that she'd been forced to listen to for hours. The mentally ill were thus labelled as not only sick, but also weak. 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. Cameron became the first director of the Allan Memorial Institute as well as the first chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at McGill. Or do you remember any of --. 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. Alison said that when her mother returned, it was no longer her mother. She wasn't able to joke and laugh She would blurt out something like: 'We must do the right thing!'" ", "Brainwashing's Avatar: The Curious Career of Dr. Ewen Cameron,". Amory: Duncan knows how to be very careful about what he says. Any documents that related to patient treatment were destroyed? He began his career as resident surgeon at Glasgow Infirmary, but in 1929 moved to Canada to work in the Brandon Mental Hospital. Memorials. We encourage you to research and examine these records to . 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. Particularly because we put that question to him today. Click here for the donation page. Shes a member of SAAGA, or Survivors Allied Against Government Abuse. He moved to Upstate New York where he studied aging and memory at two hospitals in Albany. He told The Scotsman: "Cameron's entire focus seemed to shift after the Nuremberg Trials. Donald Ewen Cameron was born in Scotland in 1901. He died three years later. And he was a fast driver. 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