The Doctor Who Tried to Erase the Self

This episode explores the Montreal experiments led by psychiatrist Donald Ewen Cameron at the Allan Memorial Institute, one of the most disturbing chapters connected to MKULTRA. Cameron believed that damaged minds could be “depatterned” and rebuilt, using methods that included drug-induced sleep, electroshock, sensory deprivation, and repeated recorded messages. In three minutes, the episode asks what happens when medicine forgets the person in front of it, and when healing becomes another name for control.