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? Amory: Sarahs grandmother, Val, sued the CIA forty years ago for supporting Dr. Camerons work at the Allan. We encourage you to research and examine these records . He theorized that attitudes and beliefs should reinforce the overall attitudes of the desired society. Ewen Cameron was fulfilling one of the items on his life bucket list: to climb Street Mountain. Skip . Alison Steel says her mother was never the same after undergoing. This third type needs, This page was last edited on 16 February 2023, at 19:10. Not all the time, but it's always there. "[36], Cameron is the subject of Stephen Bennett's film Eminent Monsters (2020), which was funded by BBC Scotland and Creative Scotland. [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. And they haven't been super successful. Many spent this period of time in what he called the "sleep room," where they were drugged into a medically-induced coma that they were brought out of only to be given three meals a day and the occasional trip to the bathroom. I think he wanted to be famous. 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? People Projects Discussions Surnames . 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. It has to do with another of his Adirondack hikes that changed the Cameron family forever. Rauh: So any documents that would show the treatment of the plaintiffs in this case were destroyed? And this is a picture up with my brother, Stuart. Experts must develop methods of forcefully changing attitudes and beliefs to prevent the authoritarian overlord. So we dont have access to Cameron's thoughts on his own legacy. Amory: Eventually though, it wasnt just Camerons successor who was calling him out. Which suggests it was for purposes of, not closure, but of not wanting information to come to light that was in the papers. And how his work lives on. In other words, they really must have seen that there was something wrong and crazy. And you can get a real sense of your own, where you are in the world. 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. Amory: He remembers his dad working a lot during this time, which, definitely tracks. [37], Whether or not Cameron was aware that funding for his experiments was coming from the CIA is unclear; it has been argued that he would have carried out the exact same experiments if funding had come from a source without ulterior motives. Not, at least, until well into 1965, months after they were told to end the experiments. Ben: Would you have anything that you would want to say to Dr. Cameron or his family? Because it would seem to me, or I was concerned as a lawyer, that it might be a breach of the patient-doctor privilege. 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. 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. He recruited psychoanalysts, social psychiatrists and biologists globally to develop the psychiatry program at McGill[12] From its beginning in 1943, the Allan Memorial Institute was run on an "open door" basis, allowing patients to leave if they wished, as opposed to the "closed door" policy of other hospitals in Canada in the early 1940s. And there some of them were high risk ones. The legacy can be seen in the torture techniques employed in Northern Ireland and in Guantanamo Bay. 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. She very slowly recovered mostly and died in 2017. 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. Donald Ewen Cameron was born in Bridge of Allen, a small town in Scotland, on December 24, 1901. Cameron stated, "Get it understood how dangerous these damaged, sick personalities are to ourselves and above all, to our children, whose traits are taking form and we shall find ways to put an end to them." Scottish-American psychiatrist Dr. Donald Ewen Cameron led and conducted these experiments. Ben: Street Mountain is a strange choice for a bucket list. Duncan: I mean, it's very different than the caricature that you sometimes read in the press. In 1929 he moved to Canada where he worked in the Brandon Mental Hospital in Manitoba as the physician in charge. And so even all these years later, it's part of my life. Our username is. Amory: He doesnt explicitly say that he was the one who did the destroying. According to "Brainwashing's Avatar: The Curious Career of Dr. Ewen Cameron,"there was more to his work at the Allan Memorial Institute than just exploring the CIA's questions about brainwashing. . Duncan: You see, he doesn't have a scowl. 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. And Mary Morrow? [citation needed]. The psychiatric community could have questioned his methods, but they remained silent. Any documents that related to patient treatment were destroyed? If you want that too, we would deeply appreciate your contribution to our work in any amount. Alison said that when her mother returned, it was no longer her mother. 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. Here in the hospital Cameron could observe how the psychiatric patient resembled patients with other diseases that were not psychiatric in nature. Cameron focused primarily on biological descriptive psychiatry and applied the British and European schools and models of the practice. 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. And he admits that the papers he removed are now destroyed. Peterborough County. Cameron further argued that "the weak" must not influence children. Cregg: What do you know about mind-control experiments? He died three years later. [10] There he met A. T. Mathers, Manitoba's principal psychiatrist, who convinced Cameron in 1929 to move to Brandon, the second largest city of Manitoba, Canada. And in a sense, that's what he wanted to do professionally. 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. To see some of the things that have happened are very upsetting. [16], Cameron next published Nuremberg and Its Significance. Please note . In the late 1940s and early 1950s, Cameron continued his work on memory and its relationship to aging. 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. [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. Donald Ewen Cameron (19011967) was born in Scotland in 1901 and graduated from the University of Glasgow in 1924. Heres John Marks again. 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". It petered out in the early 60s as the programs director, Sidney Gottlieb, came to a realization. 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? The work of Dr. Ewen Cameron may have been discredited by mainstream psychiatry, but that doesn't mean it went away completely. Harvey: Here he is trying to reach the peak, trying to climb the mountain, reach this goal. Do you remember that? Dr. Ewen Cameron wanted to win a Nobel Prize for his work in psychiatry. Abruptly and unexpectedly, Dr. Cameron suffered a life-ending heart attack while mountain climbing in 1967. 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 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 sick were, for Cameron, the viral infection to its stability and health. Cameron never got his Nobel Prize in fact, he died not long after leaving Allan Memorial Institute. On the weekends, you'd think he would go out and mow the lawn or bask in the sun or go play golf or tennis, but none of it. Think of all the books and the movies that are about mind control. 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. 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. We collect and match historical records that Ancestry users have contributed to their family trees to create each person's profile. He had various people record the tapes sometimes including the patient's loved ones and it was, on the whole, incredibly traumatizing. That's how quick it is because it removes your time and space. Heads up that some elements (i.e. [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. Donald Ewen Cameron was born in Bridge of Allan, Scotland, the oldest son of a Presbyterian minister. 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. 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. 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. "[35] She then cites Alfred W. McCoy: "Stripped of its bizarre excesses, Cameron's experiments, building upon Donald O. Hebb's earlier breakthrough, laid the scientific foundation for the CIA's two-stage psychological torture method. Amory: Dr. Ewen Cameron will never be able to respond to the intergenerational trauma created by his work. 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. Heres journalist John Marks. [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. Though he does seem to imply that it was done by him or someone in the family. 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. Velma Orlikow, for instance, was dealing with postpartum depression. His work had led him to the belief that mental illness could be "cured" like, say, a broken hip might be rehabilitated. Ben: Hebb did an interview with a film producer in the 1980s, saying, quote, Cameron was irresponsible criminally stupid. 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. Duncan Cameron: This is a picture of the whole family. Two of my sons are lawyers and they say it isnt a good idea.. 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. 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. More about the Cameron family name; Sponsored by Ancestry. Or answer questions about his motivations, whether or not he knew he was part of the CIAs mind control efforts. Cameron became the first director of the Allan Memorial Institute as well as the first chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at McGill. Her life was sad. Donald Hebb and Ewen Cameron were competitors; they did not collaborate, though Cameron incorporated Hebb's sensory isolation techniques into his own diabolical arsenal of psychiatry's instruments of torture. "He was supposed to do wonders with people with depression or mental health issues." Amory: This is from The Adirondack Daily Enterprise, is the name of the paper. To prevent this, the West would have to take measures to reorganize German society. That was just something we wanted to get clarification on. You can buy the full book for only . Duncan: Yes. What started as short-term depression before the Allan, morphed into chronic depression, as well as diagnosed schizophrenia and bipolar disorder afterwards. Dr. Ewen Cameron wanted to win a Nobel Prize for his work in psychiatry. Traces of some survived, including documentation on Sub-project 42 also known as Operation Midnight Climax and sub-project 68. 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. Ironically, his lasting impact would be on how to destroy the human mind, not how to repair it. Esther Schrier who was a nurse at Montreal's Jewish General Hospital tragically lost her first child at just three weeks of age. The U.S. wanted to know just how such a thing could possibly happen, and Dr. Ewen Cameron had a theory: brainwashing. It describes various personalities that he believed were of marked danger to all members of society. He is largely known today for his central role in unethical medical experiments, and development of psychological and medical torture techniques for the CIA. Cameron's concerns extended to his policies determining who should have children and advance to positions of authority. She wasn't able to joke and laugh She would blurt out something like: 'We must do the right thing!'" In this manner, somatic causes could be compared. Yeah so it was sad. 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. As time has worn on, its become the families of those victims who shoulder the burden. [8] 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. Donald Cameron of Lochiel (c.1700 - October 1748), was an influential Highland Clan Chief known for his magnanimous and gallant nature. It's not clear how many patients Dr. Ewen Cameron's treatments destroyed, but some families have come forward with stories of what was done to their loved ones. Ian Donald Cameron is geboren in het jaar 1932 in Blairmore House, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, zoon van Ewen Donald CAMERON en Enid Agnes Maud LEVITA. Duncan: I'm Duncan Cameron. Amory: Marians mom died three ago. 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. Sounds questionable? And these are pictures of him, these are both in the Adirondack Mountains. And here he is with me many years ago. from the University of London in 1925, and an M.D. 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. And you can see this manual that's been found all around the world, from hellholes to modern democracies. In 1938 he moved to Albany, New York, where he received his diplomate in psychiatry and thus was certified in psychiatry. 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. You can see other fellow humans. 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. As soon as his family found out about his death, they burned all the files that this man kept in his possession. 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. And he has a much different memory of how it all went down. 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. 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: But Cameron was publishing articles and giving speeches about his work throughout his life. Amory: Nearly everyone who experienced Camerons treatments first-hand has since died. Donald Ewen Cameron 24 December 1901 - 8 September 1967)[1] was a Scottish-born psychiatrist. So I think in a certain way they believed that what fiction writers could come up with, somebody could actually make real. The idea that people needed to sit down and talk about their problems was the old way of doing things, and Cameron was living in an era where things were getting more and more automated. And in that sense, I think his ambition overrode his skills and his ability to do the research. 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. And, until theres true accountability for what happened and what is still happening, it never will be. 3.99 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? memorial page for Donald Ewen Cameron (1852-5 Feb 1892), Find a Grave Memorial ID 170055188, citing Cameron Cemetery, Indian River . He received an M.B., Ch.B. Were they *destroyed* or did you just take the patients name out? Kinzer: Later on, it became the basis for manuals that the CIA provided in the 1980s to police forces in Latin America that were known to practice torture. 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? 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. They fear the stranger, they fear the new idea; they are afraid to live, and scared to die." 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." 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. His support of Charles Edward Stuart was instrumental in the Jacobite Rising of 1745 Lochiel and the Jacobite cause 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. Duncan: I started work at the State Department just a day or so before Kennedy was assassinated. "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. And he was a fast driver. He furthered his diagnostic definitions of clinical states such as anxiety, depression and schizophrenia. (McCoy, 2007), According to Leonard Rubenstein, an attorney for plaintiffs [Mrs. David Orlikow et al. In 1938 he received his diploma in psychiatry and became professor of neurology, psychiatry at University at . in psychological medicine from the University of Glasgow in 1924, a D.P.M. That, says McGill University, was the work of Dr. Donald Ewen Cameron, a psychiatrist who performed experiments so horrifying he's been called "Scotland's Mengele." Did it work? Under that program, more than 80,000 suspected North Vietnamese sympathizers were interrogated by US forces and their allies. 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. He was always interested in the future. This personality type poses a danger to those closest to them, especially children. Ben: Her dad couldnt afford childcare, so soon after Marians mother went into the Allan, social services took Marian and her two younger brothers away because there was no parent to take care of them. Today, we're talking to one of the only people who will stand up for Dr. Cameron. [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. On March 10, Cameron's notes read: "She is disoriented as to time only and is probably in her second stage of depatterning. Amory: Duncan also has an easy, quiet smile. Another patient was suffering from leg pains that no one had been able to diagnose. And in a lot of ways, modern psychiatry has completely left behind the man who once dominated its ranks. 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: The answer might be in the idea of brainwashing itself. 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. 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. His response? The idea was turning the mind into a fresh slate for the next part of the process, called "psychic driving.". 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. 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. Cleghorn immediately ended Camerons program. Amory: What was your father like as a dad? He studied Medicine at the University of Glasgow and obtained his degree in 1924. . Ben: About halfway through, Prosecutor Joseph Rauh starts quoting statements that Camerons wife Duncans mom made on the record. Research genealogy for Donald Ewen Cameron of Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota, USA, as well as other members of the Cameron family, on Ancestry. While guys like Freud encouraged talking through problems, Cameron thought things like electroshock therapy and drug cocktails could be used to physically change the brain and get rid of the illness in question. Alison believes those random phrases her mother would sometimes say were from the recordings that she'd been forced to listen to for hours. It was reported that none of the patients sent to the Radio Telemetry Lab showed any signs of improvement. Joseph Rauh Jr. was one of the attorneys that represented the group who filed lawsuits in the mid-1980s. The only cure for mental illness, he theorized, was to eliminate its "carriers" from society altogether. Memories are not the most reliable form of evidence. He published a book called Remembering[18] and extended psychiatric links to human biology. Jim: But again, you know, the deposition transcript, you're going to have to rely on that, like we did. I wasnt destroying documents. (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. He never got one. According to "Brainwashing's Avatar: The Curious Career of Dr. Ewen Cameron,"he left his position at Allan and his patients in 1964. He began his career as resident surgeon at Glasgow Infirmary, but in 1929 moved to Canada to work in the Brandon Mental Hospital. sister. He died of a heart attack while climbing a mountain in the Adirondacks in 1967. in psychological medicine from the University of Glasgow in 1924, a D.P.M. Thus, this group would have to be studied and controlled as a contagious social disease. 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. He argued that people with mental illnesses could spread and transmit their diseases. The FBI's FOIA Library contains many files of public interest and historical value. ", "Brainwashing's Avatar: The Curious Career of Dr. Ewen Cameron,". Donald Ewen Cameron ((1901-12-24)24 December 1901 (1967-09-08)8 September 1967)[1] was a Scottish-born psychiatrist. So why havent they? We put this to Harvey Weinstein, the psychiatrist we heard from earlier, whose father was a patient at the Allan. He moved to Upstate New York where he studied aging and memory at two hospitals in Albany. Cameron's work stopped when she gave birth, and Lloyd remembered a broken mother. 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]. He clearly had his mind set on doing unorthodox research long before the Agency front started to fund him. 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. [clarification needed] Those Germans affected by the events that led to World War II were of utmost concern. Cameron quickly found patients didn't want to listen to the messages. Sign up and be the first to find out the latest news and articles about what's going on in the medical field. Those were right out. 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. Duncan: Talking about him, it should be easy, but sometimes it's sort of emotional. Theres no clear approach to the summit only overgrown pathways. Sir Ewen Cameron of Lochiel, 17t. Donald Ewen Cameron was the key figure in the Montreal experiments. 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