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Psychiatry and the CIA: Victims of Mind Control

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As a teenager during the 1950s, Harvey Weinstein watched his once vibrant and successful father sink further into mental illness, despite treatment by one of America's preeminent psychiatrists - Dr. Ewen Cameron. It was more than 20 years later that Dr. Weinstein realized what had actually happened to his father, while reading an article about secret mind-control projects funded by the U.S. Central Ineligence Agency.

These research experiments had been conducted between 1957 and 1960 at the Allan Memorial Institute in Montreal under the direction of Dr. Ewen Cameron - the same time period and place that Dr. Weinstein's father, Lou, was being treated for anxiety by the world-renowned psychiatrist. This program (really mind-control experiments) was funded by the CIA and the Canadian government, and was carried out by Dr. Ewen Cameron without the knowledge of the patients or their families.

In Psychiatry and the CIA: Victims of Mind Control, Dr. Weinstein chronicles how he spent eight years fighting to help obtain justice for his father, who, along with eight other Canadians, was suing the CIA for negligence in its sponsorship of Cameron's experiments. That program included lengthy periods of multiple electroshocks, hallucinogenic drugs such as LSD, prolonged sensory deprivation, forced sleep, induced insulin comas, and psychic driving - an attempt to alter behavior by forcing patients to listen to taped messages over and over again. In his book, Dr. Weinstein describes his feelings of horror and helplessness while watching his father's health and personality be destroyed as he underwent Dr. Cameron's experimental protocol.

Psychiatry and the CIA: Victims of Mind Control is Harvey Weinstein's personal account of the events at the Allan Memorial Insitute. A gripping chronicle of a medical scandal of horrific proportions, this book is also a story of government misconduct, deceit, and cover-ups. Dr. Weinstein further raises questions about the vunerability of contemporary medicine to the abuse of patients in the context of repeated episodes of ethical transgressions during this century. And it is a deeply moving tale of a man and a family who were left ravaged from the suffering inflicted upon them.
--- from book's dustjacket