'The Family - The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power' by Jeff Sharlet

[Jan Klimkowski]

I would interested in learning more of the former Latvian president's work on experimental psychology and memory, conducted at McGill University, at a crucial time in that institution's history.

Wow. I guess I heard about McGill in both cases but didn't make the connexion. It's a big university I guess, so who knows.

I agree that McGill is of course a big place.

Cameron's work was 24/7 and would have needed lots of bright young research students. Most of them remain unidentified.

However, no direct connection is proven as yet.

The psychic driving procedure was a chronological precursor to Cameron's Depatterning, the latter involving massive doses of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) combined with similarly large doses of psychedelic drugs (such as L.S.D.). The intent was to break down the subject's personality--theoretically psychic driving could then be used with some efficacy in establishing a new personality.[2] In Cameron's Depatterning, the ECT would often continue to be administered despite the manifestation of convulsive fits, which were consensually considered to be contraindications to normal and safe ECT procedure. Such biologically and psychologically devastating procedures, adopted internationally by the psychiatric establishment, were largely abolished by the time the CIA was brought before a Senate Hearing (1977)[3] for its involvement and funding of Cameron's experimental activities—as part of the MKULTRA Program.[4]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychic_driving

Officially, Cameron's psychic driving and depatterning could easily have been described as experimental psychology in the field of memory and personality.

Naomi Klein powerfully uses Shock Therapy as both a metaphor for key events in late C20th geopolitical history, and as a descriptive term for the true nature of Chicago School economics.

Shock Therapy resonates.

As do its victims....