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I swear by Apollo: Dr. Ewen Cameron and the CIA-brainwashing experiments Paperback – 1987

by Don Gillmor (Author)

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Paperback: 188 pages
Publisher: Eden Press; 1st edition (1987)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0920792723
ISBN-13: 978-0920792728
Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6 x 1.1 inches
Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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EWEN CAMERON AND THE NEW PSYCHIATRY

By Cheri Montagu on August 23, 2008

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Don Gillmor's I Swear by Apollo is an early expose of the type of psychiatrist who is becoming all too common these days. Even before his experiments were funded by the CIA, Ewen Cameron was the epitome of the "New Psychiatry" which has replaced the "Old Psychiatry" with its emphasis upon psychoanalysis. He was arrogant, aggressive, impatient and uninterested in the inner feelings of patients except as a tool to manipulate them. He was fascinated with electronic gadgets. Not surprisingly, he became a leading advocate of the use of ECT (electroconvulsive treatment) and may have been the very person who sold it to the CIA (see Colin Ross, The CIA Doctors). As human guinea pigs, he used people who had been admitted to the Allan Memorial Institute, (over which he presided), in a state of distress, and who were in no position to protest against his exploitation of them. Seeking the amelioration of their suffering, they found that he had made them worse: over sixty per cent suffered permanent and significant memory loss. Cameron's interests dovetailed very neatly with those of the CIA, in that he was seeking an American method of "brainwashing", in his case to be used as therapy. Cameron thought that to cure someone of mental illness, one had to destroy their old personality entirely. It never occurred to him that the patient's own psyche might contain elements which could heal him, and that the therapist's role was to help bring these to the fore. In his quest for immediate results, he showed a shocking lack of concern for human life and for the suffering of his experimental subjects. He is the American counterpart of Josef Mengele.

The one problem with Gillmor's book is that he view Cameron as a symbol of a passing era, when in fact, he was the harbinger of a new one.Read more ›

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great journalism

By Glass17 on March 31, 2015

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I am almost finished with the book and I have been very impressed at the how well it was researched and what a great example of true fact based journalism this read has been. There is a ton of information I have learned concerning the development of modern psychiatry alongside the story of Dr. Cameron.

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