Cameron’s experiments combined electroshock, drugs, sensory deprivation, and forced silence

Evidence

Cameron set up a panopticon with isolation chambers, where he conducted human experiments of the utmost cruelty. The rooms were like torture chambers. First, over the course of a month, patients were administered powerful electroshocks. This served to expunge their memories. In the process, they were also given mind-altering drugs. Their hands and arms were stuck in cardboard tubes in order to keep them from touching their bodies, i.e. to prevent them from having any encounter with their own self-image. Moreover, Cameron deprived his patients of sensory impressions by inducing extended sleep by pharmaceutical means: they were brought out of this state only to eat and perform bodily functions. Such conditions could last for up to thirty days. Staff were instructed to prohibit patients from speaking. Cameron’s hospital was a panopticon far crueller than Bentham’s. — Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics, 82

Categorization

  • QUESTION: Worth confirming independently — Han’s accounts often compress; exact protocols, dosages, and durations deserve verification against Klein or primary sources.
  • XREF: connects to: Cameron’s electroshock experiments were CIA-funded Cold War brainwashing — Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New…, 83

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