In the Sleep Room: The Story of the CIA Brainwashing Experiments in Canada

by Anne Collins

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td {border: 1px solid #cccccc;}br {mso-data-placement:same-cell;}In August 1977 Canadians reacted with horror and revulsion when they learned that in the 1950s and early 1960s, one of the most eminent psychiatrists in the country had used his vulnerable patients as unwitting guinea pigs in brainwashing experiments funded by the CIA and the Canadian government. This is the spellbinding true story of unchecked ambition and the misuses of medical power. To his patients and staff, Dr. Ewen Cameron, director of Montreal's Allan Memorial Institutue, was a god-like figure, revered for his dedication and optimism. But he was also consumed by a desire to make a scientific discovery that would win him the Nobel prize. Behind the doors of the sleep room on Ward South 2, he exposed dozens of patients to barbaric treatments from which some never recovered. Cameron though he could wipe brains clean of "bad" behavior, and program in new behavior: he kept his patients in a chemical sleep for weeks and months at a time; exposed them to massive electro-shock and drugs such as LSD; and forced them to listen to recorded messages endlessly repeated through headphones. Cameron was not alone in his desire to reprogram the human brain. the US intelligence establishment found in him an eager collaborator, and funded his work substantially and covertly. In 1988, after years of stonewalling by the CIA, nine of the dozens of victims were at last given a chance to claim restitution for Cameron's "treatme

• Publisher: Lester & Orpen Dennys
• Binding: Paperback
• ISBN: 088619198x
• Condition: Good

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