Although society had established sanctions against the spread of infectious diseases, Cameron wanted to extend the concept of contagion to chronic anxiety. He moved to Upstate New York where he studied aging and memory at two hospitals in Albany. Cameron started to distinguish populations between "the weak" and "the strong". Most of the patient files are gone, and according to WBUR, they weren't just misplaced, they were destroyed. The paper stated that German culture and its people would have offspring bound to become a threat to world peace in 30 years. with distinction from the University of Glasgow in 1936.[8]. 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. Though he did visit the Allan Memorial on occasion. Marian believes all of this was a result of her mother going into the Allan. 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. 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. The personality types are as follows: Cameron believed that a society in which psychiatry built and developed the institutions of government, schools, prisons and hospitals would be one in which science triumphed over the "sick" members of society. Ben: About halfway through, Prosecutor Joseph Rauh starts quoting statements that Camerons wife Duncans mom made on the record. And he was a fast driver. 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. Its not a very popular mountain to climb, its steep. He actually has a smile. 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. 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). ", "Brainwashing's Avatar: The Curious Career of Dr. Ewen Cameron,". 22 As the Watergate scandal broke in 1973, MKUltra was officially ordered to be shut down by the CIA. Amory: Duncan knows how to be very careful about what he says. All Germans on trial would be assessed according to the likeliness for committing the crime. Amory: This is from The Adirondack Daily Enterprise, is the name of the paper. Jim: But again, you know, the deposition transcript, you're going to have to rely on that, like we did. from the University of London in 1925, and an M.D. "He was this miracle psychiatrist," she said. Ewen passed away on month day 1915, at age 84 at death place. And I think it affected a lot more people than anybody even realizes today. Despite the horrific abuse, the American and Canadian psychiatric establishment closed ranks. Cameron's work was funded under MKUltra's subproject 68. 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. [26] His "psychic driving" experiments consisted of putting a subject into a drug-induced coma for weeks at a time (up to three months in one case) while playing tape loops of noise or simple statements. Cameron also wanted to revolutionize the way psychology and psychiatry looked at mental illness. And these are pictures of him, these are both in the Adirondack Mountains. (Beyond Nuremburg, ABA Journal March 1997; News accounts of five legal cases at: The Law and Mind Control Mind Control Through Five Cases). 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. People Projects Discussions Surnames . Donald Cameron of Lochiel (c.1700 - October 1748), was an influential Highland Clan Chief known for his magnanimous and gallant nature. Duncan: I mean, it's very different than the caricature that you sometimes read in the press. That was in December of 1959, and according to the lawsuit (via the Consumer Law Group), Cameron diagnosed Morrow as having "nervousness and tension." Jean spent three months under Cameron's care, and spent two periods in a drug-induced coma. Cameron reported to John Gittinger, an agent in charge of overseeing parts of MKUltra. What Hebb and Cameron both have in common is their contribution in establishing the scientific foundation for CIAs two-stage psychological torture method. 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. The second stage involved extreme, high voltage multiple electroshock treatments three times daily. Then we brought them down I think it was probably during one of my infrequent jaunts up there I brought them down in my car, and I then took them over and deposited them at the American Psychiatric Association. Cleghorn immediately ended Camerons program. Patients would be subjected to messages repeated hundreds of thousands of times, as they were kept in their coma for up to a month. from the University of London in 1925, and an M.D. Canada. In 1929 he moved to Canada where he worked in the Brandon Mental Hospital in Manitoba as the physician in charge. [citation needed] He furthermore wanted to understand the problems of memory caused by aging, believing that the aged brain experienced psychosis. [citation needed]; if the greater population of Germany saw the atrocities of World War II, they would surely submit to a re-organized system of justice. This personality type poses a danger to those closest to them, especially children. Our username is. Maybe the people responsible are waiting for all of us to forget. Yeah so it was sad. To see some of the things that have happened are very upsetting. . Experts must develop methods of forcefully changing attitudes and beliefs to prevent the authoritarian overlord. 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 a lot of ways, modern psychiatry has completely left behind the man who once dominated its ranks. ", And what about the CIA, who had approved and funded the research in the first place? And how his work lives on. Those who are privileged to know him, even briefly, will not soon forget the warmth and kindliness of this understanding man.. 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]. 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. After his treatments patients were unable to function; they had been reduced to a state of infancy. 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. Cameron became the first director of the Allan Memorial Institute as well as the first chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at McGill. Typically, I would show up there and, if it was a Friday, ask if I could have a lift down to Lake Placid. But we do have his son, Duncan Cameron. Advertisement. Amory: You're welcome to pull it out now. Not, at least, until well into 1965, months after they were told to end the experiments. According to Cameron's psychiatric analysis of the German people, they were not suitable to have children or hold positions of authority because of a genetic tendency to organize society in a way that fostered fearsome aggression and would lead to war rather than peace; he would repeatedly use the German as the archetypal character structure on which to ground the most psychologically deviant humans. This must be very difficult, very complicated for them. And this is a picture up with my brother, Stuart. In 1936, he moved to Massachusetts to become director of the research division at Worcester State Hospital only 1 year later. 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. 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. Shes also signed on to the class-action lawsuit against McGill University, the Canadian government, and the CIA. Which suggests it was for purposes of, not closure, but of not wanting information to come to light that was in the papers. Alison said that when her mother returned, it was no longer her mother. Her family sued, first based on the treatment alone, then again, after discovering she was a part of the MKUltra program. I mean, he was fascinated with the future in his own field of psychiatry, medicine and government. We hope you enjoyed reading this excerpt from this mini book on the Scottish history of the Cameron family. Dr. Morrow, says The Washington Post, had applied for a fellowship in psychiatry with Cameron. Ben: Perhapsthis is Dr. Cameron's most enduring legacy. 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. 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. Were they *destroyed* or did you just take the patients name out? There must have been names of patients. 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. She very slowly recovered mostly and died in 2017. [citation needed]. Scottish-American psychiatrist Dr. Donald Ewen Cameron led and conducted these experiments. It's Boston local news in one concise, fun and informative email. Did it work? 3.99 And there some of them were high risk ones. Amory: This is a hard reality for the family that Ewen Cameron left behind. Because it would seem to me, or I was concerned as a lawyer, that it might be a breach of the patient-doctor privilege. He began his career as resident surgeon at Glasgow Infirmary, but in 1929 moved . Ben: Camerons research could never happen today at least not lawfully. He didn't pull punches, saying, "We hanged Nazis for doing the sort of things Cameron did.". 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. 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. There was also Donald Hebb, who ran McGills psychology department at the time Cameron was running its psychiatry department. And one of these risks was the treatment that he was using. Amory: Ben and I are in an apartment in Washington D.C. thats bursting with morning light and books, and were flipping through some of our hosts old family photos. Skip Ancestry main menu Main Menu. The only cure for mental illness, he theorized, was to eliminate its "carriers" from society altogether. More about the Cameron family name; Sponsored by Ancestry. They stressed how they'd been unwilling participants, and that they'd gone to the institute for other issues. The described types would have to be eliminated from society if there was to be peace and progress. Cameron quickly found patients didn't want to listen to the messages. 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. Stephen: So they created a manual, which basically was for intelligence personnel. While he didn't name names or give specifics, he did say that papers "related to patients were destroyed.". And here I am looking much younger than I am now. Ben: OK. Fair. 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. Ben Brock Johnson: So what do you have in front of you here? Amory: Just not in the way he might have hoped. There is no such thing as closure. 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. Dr. Ewen Cameron wanted to win a Nobel Prize for his work in psychiatry. His death occurred while climbing a mountain. Hes in his mid-80s now. Shes a member of SAAGA, or Survivors Allied Against Government Abuse. We encourage you to research and examine these records . He did and he got it. Thank you! Donald Ewen Cameron was born in Bridge of Allan, Scotland, the oldest son of a Presbyterian minister. Allan Cameron. The psychological experimentation project, known as MK Ultra, was allegedly funded by the Canadian government and the United States Central Intelligence Agency. And I think my father would have too. 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. Duncan Cameron is Ewen Cameron's son, and when he speaks of his father, he talks about a man who loved to hike, read science fiction, and who had an obituary that read, in part: "Those who are privileged to know him, even briefly, will not soon forget the warmth and kindliness of this understanding man." He theorized that attitudes and beliefs should reinforce the overall attitudes of the desired society. Rauh: --Well, I will put it another way. For Cameron, the traits were contagions and anyone affected by the societal, cultural or personality forms would themselves be infected. After his mother confirmed that yes, there were 12 boxes of papers that her sons both lawyers said she probably shouldn't share, Duncan revealed that he had gone through and taken out "several papers" that identified "a particular patient." . 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. [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. Just as Sigrid Schultz stated in Germany will try it again, Cameron fostered a fear for Germans and their genetic determination. . Memorials. And you see this actual physical manual on how to break down the human mind. Cameron used his ideas to implement policies on who should govern and parent in society. 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. 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. About 55 families of victims who underwent medical experimentation in the 1950s and 1960s are suing for millions of dollars. Ben: Hebb did an interview with a film producer in the 1980s, saying, quote, Cameron was irresponsible criminally stupid. 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). 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. [citation needed]. Ewen Donald Cameron. Amory: What was your father like as a dad? Cameron titled this procedure "intrapsychic" (a term derived from the psycho-somatic relationship of hospital patients). Under that program, more than 80,000 suspected North Vietnamese sympathizers were interrogated by US forces and their allies. They fear the stranger, they fear the new idea; they are afraid to live, and scared to die." 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. The described types were the enemies of society and life. Sir Ewen Cameron of Lochiel, 17t. Skip . The insecure man "They are the driven crowds that makes the army of the authoritarian overlord; they are the stuffing of conservatism mediocrity is their god. First I have to say that my father was exceedingly committed to his field. 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? It describes various personalities that he believed were of marked danger to all members of society. Amory: He said he did not destroy documents, that he didn't know about that. What started as short-term depression before the Allan, morphed into chronic depression, as well as diagnosed schizophrenia and bipolar disorder afterwards. The mentally ill were thus labelled as not only sick, but also weak. Heres John Marks again. "Now, that was a foolish mistake. Amory: And I think you may have given a deposition for that. 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. Indian River. According to The Guardian, it started with playing tapes designed to tap into the reason the patient sought help in the first place. Amory: Eventually though, it wasnt just Camerons successor who was calling him out. It affected a lot of people. 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. [16], Cameron next published Nuremberg and Its Significance. Amory: Marians mom died three ago. Those were right out. But the government agency backing his experiments at the Allan did find a way to make use of his methods. He was there when his legal partner, Joseph Rauh, took Camerons deposition. They had 11 children: Allan Francis Cameron, John Donald Cameron and 9 other children. (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. 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? So you can see that the work of Ewen Cameron, filtered through Gottlieb, definitely informs the interrogation techniques, if we want to call them that, that the United States has been using on its prisoners in Guantanamo and in black sites around the world. It's hardwired into the brain. AIan Cameron followed in the footsteps of his father and became a director at Panmure Gordon in 1957. Operating under the umbrella of MKUltra were as many as 162 sub-projects, with as many as 80 different organizations involved in research. Did he ever talk about that? He studied Medicine at the University of Glasgow and obtained his degree in 1924. . His support of Charles Edward Stuart was instrumental in the Jacobite Rising of 1745 Lochiel and the Jacobite cause Cameron's concerns extended to his policies determining who should have children and advance to positions of authority. Donald Ewen Cameron 24 December 1901 - 8 September 1967)[1] was a Scottish-born psychiatrist. 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. Amory: And, they delivered, with a full transcript of Duncans deposition from November, 1983. Rauh: A question that Mr. Turner wanted me to ask was what happened to the papers identifying the patients? 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 the final installment ofMadness," we sit down with Duncan, and we explore the shocking ways his father's methods are still being used today. That's absolutely the stuff of a terrifying Netflix horror series, but it was very real and it destroyed an unknown number of lives. Duncan: Yes. And, later on to guidebooks for what we now call enhanced interrogation at places like Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib. And we would take off. We collect and match historical records that Ancestry users have contributed to their family trees to create each person's profile. [citation needed][21]. She had no idea how to boil water, much less care for a child. memorial page for Donald Ewen Cameron (1852-5 Feb 1892), Find a Grave Memorial ID 170055188, citing Cameron Cemetery, Indian River . And in that sense, I think his ambition overrode his skills and his ability to do the research. Instead of being considered for the fellowship, the neurologist was admitted to his Allan Memorial Institute, diagnosed with schizophrenia, and given such a heavy dose of barbiturates that it triggered an allergic reaction and she suffered from a prolonged loss of oxygen to the brain. Ben: 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: 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. He told The Scotsman: "Cameron's entire focus seemed to shift after the Nuremberg Trials. But none of us trained in psychiatry. Ben: But some key documentation of Camerons time at the Allan is straight up missing. Old '45" Cameron Major Cameron (1663 - 1718) family tree on Geni, with over 230 million profiles of ancestors and living relatives. 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