Even today, remnants of [Dr. Donald Ewen] Cameron's experiments at the Allan Memorial [Hospital] appear in torture methods at places like Guantanamo Bay." This was only one instance at one university, mind you. And how his work lives on. But he has fond childhood memories of summers spent in New Yorks Adirondack Mountains, where his dads competitive nature led him again and again to the line of the horizon. Ewen passed away on month day 1915, at age 84 at death place. I mean, he was fascinated with the future in his own field of psychiatry, medicine and government. The lawsuits were dismissed, even though it was later shown . More than half of Okas 86 shareholders are channelled through a company operating out of Guernsey. He is reported to have received 2m after Panmure Gordon was sold to a US bank during the period of deregulation in the early 1980s. He had a Mercedes. He is famed in history as The Gentle Lochiel. Other similar psychiatric diagnoses of Germany were published during this time. Amory: Marians mom died three ago. 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. And I think my father would have too. Two years later, Cameron traded up to a 215,000 nearby house, reportedly with help from his father and an inheritance from his great aunt. He married Marjory, daughter of MacLean of Drimnin in Morven, and had four children, the eldest of whom was afterwards the famous Sir Alan Cameron, and the youngest, a daughter, who married Cameron of Scamadale, and had a son, Lieutenant Alexander Cameron, who commanded the 79th Highlanders at Waterloo, during the last three hours of the We put this to Harvey Weinstein, the psychiatrist we heard from earlier, whose father was a patient at the Allan. Canada. Rauh: So any documents that would show the treatment of the plaintiffs in this case were destroyed? Donald Ewen Cameron was born in Bridge of Allen, a small town in Scotland, on December 24, 1901. Cameron began to develop broader theories of society, new concepts of human relations to replace concepts he deemed dangerous and outdated. He argued that people with mental illnesses could spread and transmit their diseases. Maybe the people responsible are waiting for all of us to forget. And in a sense, that's what he wanted to do professionally. Clan Cameron Archives. The companys documents reportedly boasted that he represented a 70-year connection between the firm and the Cameron family. Ben: Hebb did an interview with a film producer in the 1980s, saying, quote, Cameron was irresponsible criminally stupid. 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. Duncan: Well, that's a big subject. He had at least 2 sons with Fynvola Margaret MacDonald. And you can see this manual that's been found all around the world, from hellholes to modern democracies. Ben: Duncan says his father was so busy that he didnt see much of him during their time in Montreal. If he had a choice he would have kept living forever. Donald Ewen Cameron was the key figure in the Montreal experiments. In the late 1940s and early 1950s, Cameron continued his work on memory and its relationship to aging. Marian Read: So for me, the importance of all of this is to get it out of the shadows of pulp fiction, you know Amory: This is Marian Read. Amory: We definitely will. Ben Brock Johnson: So what do you have in front of you here? [clarification needed] Those Germans affected by the events that led to World War II were of utmost concern. North America. The victims and their lawyers want us to remember that this story isnt over. ], and great-grandfather of John Cameron (1771-1815) [qv.]. In the wake of Panama Papers disclosures, the prime minister has been fending off questions about his finances. In 1938 he moved to Albany, New York, where he received his diplomate in psychiatry and thus was certified in psychiatry. At first, No10 said it was a private affair a knockback that provoked even further scrutiny of his familys wealth and how it was earned. A stronger personality would be able to maintain itself in heavy industrial situations, he theorised, while the weaker would not be able to cope with industrial conditions. Husband of Marielene Schlumberger. Were they *destroyed* or did you just take the patients name out? 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 program is widely believed to have been partly funded by the United States Central Intelligence Agency as part of their top-secret MKULTRA program. Latest Revision: September 1, 2008. Indian River. 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. Ben: Street Mountain is a strange choice for a bucket list. [citation needed][21]. Inherited 1m Cameron family home in Kensington, split equally with her sister, Clare. . Although Cameron rejected the Freudian notion of the unconscious, he shared the Freudian idea that personal psychology is linked to the nervous nature. Cameron believed firmly in clinical psychiatry and a strict scientific method. . He died in 1966, at the age of 82. 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". Duncan: Well, I didnt destroy the documents. Ewen Donald Cameron. 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. Amory: Duncan knows how to be very careful about what he says. 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. Kinzer: This idea of some evil scientists taking control of someone else's mind is a wonderfully appealing trope, and it's been used repeatedly in very popular movies and books and stories. Dr. Ewen Cameron wanted to win a Nobel Prize for his work in psychiatry. There are movies like Gaslight and Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. Experts must develop methods of forcefully changing attitudes and beliefs to prevent the authoritarian overlord. What Hebb and Cameron both have in common is their contribution in establishing the scientific foundation for CIAs two-stage psychological torture method. Ben: Jims right. Duncan: And I've said Im unable to do that. So we dont have access to Cameron's thoughts on his own legacy. Two of my sons are lawyers and they say it isnt a good idea.. with distinction from the University of Glasgow in 1936.[8]. 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. He died in 1958, leaving an inheritance of 57,000 - worth about. Ewen Cameron was fulfilling one of the items on his life bucket list: to climb Street Mountain. First I have to say that my father was exceedingly committed to his field. If I put you through this program, within 24 hours to 48 hours you'll be in a diagnosable psychotic state. Mrs Cameron also holds shares in a property company set up by her father, Sir Reginald Sheffield. It is a rare thing that a psychiatrist of his worldwide reputation and capacity should be a resource available to a small mountain community. 8 Not a single obituary touches on Cameron's depat - terning research, and none so much as hazards the phrase "brainwashing expert," the near-standard epithet for Cameron today. You have been subscribed to WBUR Today. Known as an effective businesswoman, she set up the furniture company Oka, where she serves as chief executive. Just as Sigrid Schultz stated in Germany will try it again, Cameron fostered a fear for Germans and their genetic determination. 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]. I then *went through* the papers, because I felt that it would be improper to leave in the papers any paper that identified patients. 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? 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. But the government agency backing his experiments at the Allan did find a way to make use of his methods. Amory: And, they delivered, with a full transcript of Duncans deposition from November, 1983. He was a person who was always looking for a way of advancing the field. At least, until after Cameron left the Allan. So we don't have. Heres part of Duncans transcript: Duncan (from the transcript): I recall contacting the American Psychiatric Association and asking them if they would have an interest in holding his papers in their archives, and they expressed an interest in doing it. Steel is one of the main plaintiffs in a lawsuit against the Canadian government, the Royal Victoria Hospital and the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC). Amory: Author Stephen Kinzer, who wrote the book about the CIA and Mind Control, says, after Vietnam, this same literature got used elsewhere. in psychological medicine from the University of Glasgow in 1924, a D.P.M. 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'm sure that they loved him very much and knew him in a very different way. His father John was permanently exiled after the 1715 Rising and when his grandfather Sir Ewen Cameron died in 1719, Donald assumed his duties as Lochiel of the Camerons. In other words, they really must have seen that there was something wrong and crazy. They had 11 children: Allan Francis Cameron, John Donald Cameron and 9 other children. 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. 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. [1] In papers published during this time he linked RNA to memory. [citation needed] Characteristics were thus diagnosed as syndromes emerging from the brain. In compliance with the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) requirements, some of these records are no longer in the physical possession of the FBI, eliminating the FBI's capability to re-review and/or re-process this material. We collect and match historical records that Ancestry users have contributed to their family trees to create each person's profile. (McCoy, 2007), According to Leonard Rubenstein, an attorney for plaintiffs [Mrs. David Orlikow et al. There must have been names of patients. His occupation was occupation. [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. More about the Cameron family name; Sponsored by Ancestry. Ben: OK. Fair. 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. 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. 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. 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. Amory: The answer might be in the idea of brainwashing itself. Amory: They bounced around between foster homes and orphanages for years, experienced emotional and physical abuse. The described types would have to be eliminated from society if there was to be peace and progress. In his analysis, German culture was made up of people who had the need for status, worshipped strict order and regimentation, desired authoritarian leadership and had a deeply ingrained fear of other countries. Duncan: I mean, it's very different than the caricature that you sometimes read in the press. [15], Before his arrival in Nuremberg, Cameron had written The Social Reorganization of Germany, in which he argued that German culture and its individual citizens would have to be transformed and reorganized. And he didn't achieve that either. "[H]e was born in. 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. Amory: Duncan has a very different picture of his father, a whole bunch of them actually. Mission Statement. Amory: Eventually though, it wasnt just Camerons successor who was calling him out. When asked about the decision to involve Cameron in MK-ULTRA, John Gittinger, the CIA officer in charge of monitoring his work said, quote, Now that was a foolish mistake. Think of all the books and the movies that are about mind control. "I believe I suffered as a child, even though I love my mother.". 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 line between fantasy and reality blurred. 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