In 1933, he married Jean C. Rankine, whom he had met while they were students at the University of Glasgow. The FBI's FOIA Library contains many files of public interest and historical value. 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 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. Ben: Sure. It was a heart attack and was very sudden. 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? He argued that people with mental illnesses could spread and transmit their diseases. And I think my father would have too. And he always had a little book of science fiction by the bedside. Amory: And I think you may have given a deposition for that. Amory: The answer might be in the idea of brainwashing itself. ", 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. Cameron never got his Nobel Prize in fact, he died not long after leaving Allan Memorial Institute. 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. He published a book called Remembering[18] and extended psychiatric links to human biology. In Cameron, the CIA had a psychiatrist, conveniently outside the United States, who was willing to do terminal experiments in electroshock, sensory deprivation, drug testing, and all of the above combined. That could be heightened with various drugs, eventually was replaced by positive messages, and the so-called "psychic driving" would continue. About 55 families of victims who underwent medical experimentation in the 1950s and 1960s are suing for millions of dollars. 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. Amory: He said he did not destroy documents, that he didn't know about that. Death: June 18, 1958 (52) Immediate Family: Son of Sir Ewen Allan Cameron and Rachel Margaret Cameron. Velma Orlikow, for instance, was dealing with postpartum depression. Hebb submitted his findings to the CIA, and it ended up being just the beginning. 22 As the Watergate scandal broke in 1973, MKUltra was officially ordered to be shut down by the CIA. Ben: Over and over, weve heard from victims of Dr. Ewen Camerons brutal experiments at the Allan Memorial Institute. Today, we're talking to one of the only people who will stand up for Dr. Cameron. It is a rare thing that a psychiatrist of his worldwide reputation and capacity should be a resource available to a small mountain community. He spoke about Germans, but also to the larger portion of the society that resembled or associated with such traits. We hope you enjoyed reading this excerpt from this mini book on the Scottish history of the Cameron family. If you haven't heard Parts 1 through 4 yet, you can find them here, here,here,and here. Ewen passed away on month day 1915, at age 84 at death place. He wanted to cure schizophrenia, and win a Nobel Prize for it. And they haven't been super successful. In 1938 he received his diploma in psychiatry and became professor of neurology, psychiatry at University at . [citation needed]. That's absolutely the stuff of a terrifying Netflix horror series, but it was very real and it destroyed an unknown number of lives. 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. 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. Skip Ancestry . Just as Sigrid Schultz stated in Germany will try it again, Cameron fostered a fear for Germans and their genetic determination. "[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. Patients would be subjected to messages repeated hundreds of thousands of times, as they were kept in their coma for up to a month. Advancing Voluntary, Informed Consent to Medical Intervention, Cameron was an internationally prominent psychiatrist who developed torture techniques on his involuntary hospitalized patients mostly women. in psychological medicine from the University of Glasgow in 1924, a D.P.M. "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. Or do you remember any of --. [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. 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. Duncan: And I've said Im unable to do that. Canada. 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. Research genealogy for Donald Ewen Cameron of Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota, USA, as well as other members of the Cameron family, on Ancestry. And he was searching for ways of doing something about them. The psychological experimentation project, known as MK Ultra, was allegedly funded by the Canadian government and the United States Central Intelligence Agency. The U.S. wanted to know just how such a thing could possibly happen, and Dr. Ewen Cameron had a theory: brainwashing. 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. Amory: Duncan also has an easy, quiet smile. There's Edgar Allan Poe stories and Sherlock Holmes stories. Genealogy profile for Major Donald of 4th Chief Clunes "Old '45" Cameron Major Cameron . The idea was turning the mind into a fresh slate for the next part of the process, called "psychic driving.". Duncan: Yes. Amory: But even on their long drives from Montreal to upstate New York, Duncan says his dad never really talked about work. She was admitted to McGill's Allan Memorial Institute in 1957, needing help dealing with depression and the loss of her child. 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. I mean, he was fascinated with the future in his own field of psychiatry, medicine and government. Ben: Street Mountain is a strange choice for a bucket list. I then *went through* the papers, because I felt that it would be improper to leave in the papers any paper that identified patients. So we reached out to one of the most comprehensive archives in the world: The Library of Congress. 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. 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. But the government agency backing his experiments at the Allan did find a way to make use of his methods. 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. Those were right out. 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 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." 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. 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. Duncan: I mean, it's very different than the caricature that you sometimes read in the press. He actually has a smile. And that seemed to us to be a highly questionable action for someone to take. "He was supposed to do wonders with people with depression or mental health issues." 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 never got one. 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. And, later on to guidebooks for what we now call enhanced interrogation at places like Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib. Not all the time, but it's always there. 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. Duncan: It's really a very moving editorial. 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. Traces of some survived, including documentation on Sub-project 42 also known as Operation Midnight Climax and sub-project 68. And he has a much different memory of how it all went down. And then she came back from Montreal and she was never the same. Deze informatie is onderdeel van Families Klein, Ree, de Breed en de Vries van Terschelling van Marthan Klein op Genealogie Online. Jim Turner: The most salient point that I recall is that Camerons son told us that he'd taken his father's private records and had destroyed them. Police, hospitals, government, and schools would need to use the correct psychiatric authority to stop mental contagions from spreading. 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. Ex-husband of Enid Agnes Maud Watson. This third type needs, This page was last edited on 16 February 2023, at 19:10. The mentally ill were thus labelled as not only sick, but also weak. 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. Amory: Eventually though, it wasnt just Camerons successor who was calling him out. Cameron quickly found patients didn't want to listen to the messages. Hij is getrouwd met (Niet openbaar), ze kregen 1 kind. If I put you through this program, within 24 hours to 48 hours you'll be in a diagnosable psychotic state. 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