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The Mind-Bending MK Ultra Experiments of Dr Ewen Cameron

Explore episode Jun 24, 2026

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The Sleep Room: Depatterning and Induced Comas

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No one at the Allan Memorial Institute wants to walk past the Sleep Room. Patients press their backs to the opposite wall just to maximise the distance between themselves and those doors. Inside, people are kept in drug-induced comas for 21 to 22 hours a day, woken only to eat, use the bathroom, take more sedatives — and receive electroshock therapy. Cameron uses a specialised technique called Page-Russell, designed by its pioneers for once-a-day maximum use. Cameron administers it two or three times per day, at higher voltage. Then the patient is put back to sleep. Often, psychic driving tapes play while patients are unconscious, so their only waking or sleeping sensory experience is their own distorted voice attacking them. This can go on for up to two months straight. The stated goal is total depatterning: Cameron wants patients to lose all memory of who they are, why they came to the hospital, even their own sense of existing in time and space. In many cases he succeeds — but his patients emerge unable to dress or feed themselves, regressing to infantile behaviour. Families report that their loved ones come home forever changed. Harvey Weinstein, now a psychiatrist and human rights scholar, describes his father returning from the Allan and spending most of his time on the couch, barely able to talk. His father, as he had known him, was simply gone.

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