Donald Hebb the psychiatrist who started the whole mess with his sensory deprivation experiments had even less kind things to say: "Cameron was irresponsible criminally stupid. 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]. [38], Cameron died of a heart attack while hiking with his son in the Adirondack Mountains on September 8, 1967. Alison Steel won compensation for her mother's misery in 2017, says the CBC: $100,000 in exchange for ending legal action. This third type needs, This page was last edited on 16 February 2023, at 19:10. 22 As the Watergate scandal broke in 1973, MKUltra was officially ordered to be shut down by the CIA. And here he is with me many years ago. That's how quick it is because it removes your time and space. Amory: Theres a reason that all the photos of Ewen Cameron are from more than 50 years ago. 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. 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. Skip . 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." I then *went through* the papers, because I felt that it would be improper to leave in the papers any paper that identified patients. 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. . The line between fantasy and reality blurred. 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. Duncan: I started work at the State Department just a day or so before Kennedy was assassinated. We encourage you to research and examine these records . Cameron quickly found patients didn't want to listen to the messages. In 1984, New Scientist reported on a lawsuit filed on behalf of some of the people who ended up a part of MKUltra's Sub-project 68. I mean, he was fascinated with the future in his own field of psychiatry, medicine and government. It's hardwired into the brain. After one test he noted: "Although the patient was prepared by both prolonged sensory isolation (35 days) and by repeated depatterning, and although she received 101 days of positive driving, no favourable results were obtained." Ewen Donald Cameron. And I feel for them for that. As for the ongoing lawsuits, some of the plaintiffs have actually contacted Duncan wondering if hed be willing to support their efforts. And how his work lives on. 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. "[36], Cameron is the subject of Stephen Bennett's film Eminent Monsters (2020), which was funded by BBC Scotland and Creative Scotland. Ben: When Amory and I spoke to Duncan Cameron about his dad, he also told us about his own work, as a lawyer. Dr. Morrow, says The Washington Post, had applied for a fellowship in psychiatry with Cameron. And they are still being asked to by victims and their families, 60 years later. 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. Her family sued, first based on the treatment alone, then again, after discovering she was a part of the MKUltra program. Harvey: Here he is trying to reach the peak, trying to climb the mountain, reach this goal. Thus, this group would have to be studied and controlled as a contagious social disease. 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. So we reached out to one of the most comprehensive archives in the world: The Library of Congress. [citation needed][21]. Thank you! Experts must develop methods of forcefully changing attitudes and beliefs to prevent the authoritarian overlord. Their diagnosis was amnesia and hysteria, per a short commentary in the Journal of the American Medical Association. According to what his son, Duncan, told WBUR, it was 1967 when he decided to climb Street Mountain in the Adirondacks. And one of these risks was the treatment that he was using. So we dont have access to Cameron's thoughts on his own legacy. I'm sure part of him very much wanted to be the person who cures mental illness. It petered out in the early 60s as the programs director, Sidney Gottlieb, came to a realization. Esther Schrier who was a nurse at Montreal's Jewish General Hospital tragically lost her first child at just three weeks of age. Cameron began to base some of his notions on race, as is seen in his theories regarding the German people. 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). Cameron started to distinguish populations between "the weak" and "the strong". Ben: But there is reason to believe that these documents arent just missing. 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. 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. Duncan: He loved hiking. This is Part 5. 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. [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. If he had a choice he would have kept living forever. In 1943, Cameron was invited to McGill University in Montreal by neurosurgeon Dr Wilder Penfield. [14] Hess later confessed that he had faked the amnesia. 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. Cameron began to abandon the Freudian unconscious in favour of a social constructivist's view of mental illness. While he didn't name names or give specifics, he did say that papers "related to patients were destroyed.". 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. He warned that government institutions should take measures against such potential liabilities. John Marks observes, Ewen Cameron did not need the CIA to corrupt him. 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." He died of a heart attack while climbing a mountain in the Adirondacks in 1967. Cleghorn immediately went and took a long, hard look at what Cameron had actually been doing in his little corner of the university, and he was pretty shocked. 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. He reported that "the subject's very identity had begun to disintegrate," and that's when someone should, ya know, stop. 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. Amory: This is a hard reality for the family that Ewen Cameron left behind. He has an open, amused look on his face. Cameron never got his Nobel Prize in fact, he died not long after leaving Allan Memorial Institute. The transcript has been edited from our original script for clarity. in psychological medicine from the University of Glasgow in 1924, a D.P.M. 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? 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. Duncan: I have no recollection whether there were any papers relating to any of the--. All Germans on trial would be assessed according to the likeliness for committing the crime. Marian: It's become so embedded in our narrative, in our pop culture, without people really understanding that it happened It was real. He died of a heart attack while climbing a mountain in the Adirondacks in 1967. In the late 1940s, Cameron presented his ideas in a lecture entitled Dangerous Men and Women. Jim: But again, you know, the deposition transcript, you're going to have to rely on that, like we did. [citation needed]. Ewen Cameron made the hike with Duncans younger brother, James. If you want that too, we would deeply appreciate your contribution to our work in any amount. Not, at least, until well into 1965, months after they were told to end the experiments. Cameron would analyze what conditions produced the stronger worker, what would be the necessary conditions to replicate this personality and to reward the stronger while disciplining the weaker. 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. AIan Cameron followed in the footsteps of his father and became a director at Panmure Gordon in 1957. Advancing Voluntary, Informed Consent to Medical Intervention, Cameron was an internationally prominent psychiatrist who developed torture techniques on his involuntary hospitalized patients mostly women. Ben: Im Ben Brock Johnson, and youre listening to Endless Thread, the show featuring stories found in the vast ecosystem of online communities called Reddit. He told The Scotsman: "Cameron's entire focus seemed to shift after the Nuremberg Trials. Kinzer: If Cameron had failed to find an effective means of mind control despite carrying out the most reckless experiments, in which he was willing to take any kind of a grotesque step in an effort to find that key, this must have helped feed Gottlieb's conclusion that the whole thing didn't exist. Duncan Cameron: This is a picture of the whole family. with distinction from the University of Glasgow in 1936.[8]. Some would bang their heads against the walls relentlessly, trying to get the helmets off and that's when he realized he could just put them back into a medically-induced coma and play the tapes for as long as he wanted. Which suggests it was for purposes of, not closure, but of not wanting information to come to light that was in the papers. She was not staying in this little town. As soon as his family found out about his death, they burned all the files that this man kept in his possession. There must have been records of experiments. There are a few ways to reach us: This content was originally created for audio. Ben: Sure. Skip Ancestry main menu Main Menu. I'm the oldest son of Dr. Donald Ewen Cameron and Jean Cameron. Deze informatie is onderdeel van Families Klein, Ree, de Breed en de Vries van Terschelling van Marthan Klein op Genealogie Online. 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. 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. 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." Ben: The study also said that these treatments, the de-patterning and psychic driving programs including LSD injections, induced comas, sensory deprivation and electroshock had a detrimental impact on patients memories, which, in retrospect, might have been part of the point. 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. And in that sense, I think his ambition overrode his skills and his ability to do the research. Duncan Cameron: No. Amory: Just not in the way he might have hoped. Cameron further argued that "the weak" must not influence children. Lloyd has continued to fight for recognition, recompense, and an apology. It's safe to say that the exact opposite happened. I'm sure that they loved him very much and knew him in a very different way. In some cases, the same phrases reappear all through these. (McCoy, 2007), According to Leonard Rubenstein, an attorney for plaintiffs [Mrs. David Orlikow et al. That was in December of 1959, and according to the lawsuit (via the Consumer Law Group), Cameron diagnosed Morrow as having "nervousness and tension." He saw no reason why psychiatry should be any different. Cameron also hoped to generate families capable of using authority and techniques to take measures against mental illness, which would later be apparent in Cameron's MKULTRA and MKDELTA experiments. The 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. (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. In fact, he might have enjoyed those more. 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. Traces of some survived, including documentation on Sub-project 42 also known as Operation Midnight Climax and sub-project 68. Harvey Weinstein: Complicated question, we all have motivations for the things that we do. 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. from the University of London in 1925, and an M.D. And these are pictures of him, these are both in the Adirondack Mountains. Sarah Anne Johnson: I imagine this is very difficult for his family. Old '45" Cameron Major Cameron (1663 - 1718) family tree on Geni, with over 230 million profiles of ancestors and living relatives. Charles Tanny was a former patient of Dr. Donald Ewen Cameron at the Allan Memorial Institute in Montreal in 1957. In this manner, somatic causes could be compared. Duncan: Yes. 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? 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: 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. Its not a very popular mountain to climb, its steep. 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. He received an M.B., Ch.B. What Hebb and Cameron both have in common is their contribution in establishing the scientific foundation for CIAs two-stage psychological torture method. Duncan: We all very much wished, as we always had, that my father was alive because he would have had to deal with that issue and would have dealt with it quite effectively. After he left, his position as chair of the department of psychiatry was handed to Robert Cleghorn. 3.99 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. Duncan: Talking about him, it should be easy, but sometimes it's sort of emotional. Ben: Camerons research could never happen today at least not lawfully. So I think the complaints of the doctors and nurses had reached their ears. Amory: He remembers his dad working a lot during this time, which, definitely tracks. . That was just something we wanted to get clarification on. And I think you have, as much as love that you had for him you also had respect for him. In 1951 a few years before the U.S. government and the CIA approved MKUltra there was a top secret meeting held at Montreal's Ritz-Carlton. Cameron reported to John Gittinger, an agent in charge of overseeing parts of MKUltra. You can see out a window. Memories are not the most reliable form of evidence. He began to develop the discipline of social psychiatry which concentrated on the roles of interpersonal interaction, family, community and culture in the emergence and amelioration of emotional disturbance. According to The Guardian, it started with playing tapes designed to tap into the reason the patient sought help in the first place. [25], Cameron had been hoping to correct schizophrenia by "erasing" existing memories and "reprogramming" the psyche. Alison said that when her mother returned, it was no longer her mother. Camerons techniques have no therapeutic validity whatsoever; they were comparable to Nazi medical atrocities. 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. 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. Amory: He doesnt explicitly say that he was the one who did the destroying. 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. He was a person who was always looking for a way of advancing the field. The psychiatric community could have questioned his methods, but they remained silent. He furthered his diagnostic definitions of clinical states such as anxiety, depression and schizophrenia. Joseph Rauh Jr. was one of the attorneys that represented the group who filed lawsuits in the mid-1980s. The work of Dr. Ewen Cameron may have been discredited by mainstream psychiatry, but that doesn't mean it went away completely. Duncan: Well, I think that I would feel sad about that. Amory: Dr. Ewen Cameron will never be able to respond to the intergenerational trauma created by his work. I think he wanted to be famous. 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. Amory: Were bringing you the last installment of our special series: Madness The secret mission for mind control and the people who paid the price. We were unable to subscribe you to WBUR Today. These did nothing to calm the feud which continued through succeeding reigns to when Donald's grandson Ewen, the 13th chief, fought at the battle of Flodden where James IV was killed. Photo by Courtesy of Julie Tanny For the first four years of Julie Tanny's. 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. Not all the time, but it's always there. His theories of behavior stressed the unity of the organism with the environment; the book also outlined experimental method and research design. Duncan: This is at the Lake Placid Club in Lake Placid, New York. There is no such thing as closure. [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. 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. Duncan: They got close to the top and James looked around and my father had passed away. Care of his patients went to his assistants, and here's where things get even weirder. 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. father. His support of Charles Edward Stuart was instrumental in the Jacobite Rising of 1745 Lochiel and the Jacobite cause Research genealogy for Donald Ewen Cameron of Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota, USA, as well as other members of the Cameron family, on Ancestry. . He is largely known today for his central role in unethical medical experiments, and development of psychological and medical torture techniques for the CIA. 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. memorial page for Donald Ewen Cameron (1852-5 Feb 1892), Find a Grave Memorial ID 170055188, citing Cameron Cemetery, Indian River . According to "Brainwashing's Avatar: The Curious Career of Dr. Ewen Cameron,"he left his position at Allan and his patients in 1964. In 1938 he moved to Albany, New York, where he received his diplomate in psychiatry and thus was certified in psychiatry. Duncan: It's really a very moving editorial. And we would take off. Very different. 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. 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. 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. Heres journalist John Marks. She said: "She wasn't able to talk to me about life and regular stuff. We put this to Harvey Weinstein, the psychiatrist we heard from earlier, whose father was a patient at the Allan. 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? from the University of London in 1925, and an M.D. When it came time to evaluate Nazi leaders ahead of the Nuremberg Trials, he was one of a group of internationally renowned mental health professionals who were sent to decide just what was going on in the heads of some of the worst war criminals the world had ever seen. Hebb submitted his findings to the CIA, and it ended up being just the beginning. She never did get her children back. Genealogy profile for Major Donald of 4th Chief Clunes "Old '45" Cameron Major Cameron . My recollection was that I wasn't able to provide him with much information that he didn't already have. 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. Amory: Duncan struggles dealing with his dads legacy because he cant speak to why his dad did what he did. Amory: In the Lake Placid community where Dr. Camerons family spent the bulk of their summers, his sudden death from a heart attack while hiking was big news. 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. He theorized that attitudes and beliefs should reinforce the overall attitudes of the desired society. And so even all these years later, it's part of my life. Hij is overleden in het jaar 2010 in Near Toulon, France. For Cameron, the traits were contagions and anyone affected by the societal, cultural or personality forms would themselves be infected. Two of my sons are lawyers and they say it isnt a good idea.. Amory: Author Stephen Kinzer, who wrote the book about the CIA and Mind Control, says, after Vietnam, this same literature got used elsewhere. [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. And you see this actual physical manual on how to break down the human mind. And Camerons part of that. Though he did visit the Allan Memorial on occasion. Memorials. Sounds questionable? 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. Maybe the people responsible are waiting for all of us to forget. And he was a fast driver. 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. It describes various personalities that he believed were of marked danger to all members of society. . She very slowly recovered mostly and died in 2017. And he admits that the papers he removed are now destroyed. Ben: Street Mountain is a strange choice for a bucket list. Amory: This is from The Adirondack Daily Enterprise, is the name of the paper. He moved to Upstate New York where he studied aging and memory at two hospitals in Albany. David Cameron's grandfather Ewen Donald Cameron (1906-1958) was a City of London figure who became a director at the stock brokerage house Panmure Gordon. [clarification needed] Those Germans affected by the events that led to World War II were of utmost concern. 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. 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. Ex-husband of Enid Agnes Maud Watson. 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. Amory: They bounced around between foster homes and orphanages for years, experienced emotional and physical abuse. He began his career as resident surgeon at Glasgow Infirmary, but in 1929 moved to Canada to work in the Brandon Mental Hospital. Click here for the donation page. Shes a member of SAAGA, or Survivors Allied Against Government Abuse. 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