The McGill Experience of Robert A. Cleghorn, MD: Recollections of D. Ewen Cameron

In the past decade, the career of Dr. D. Ewen Cameron (1901-67), particularly his work at McGill in the 1950's and 1960's has attracted much attention. At least three books have been published about Cameron's controversial practices, now thoroughly discredited, of using various so-called depatterning techniques, including LSD, in investigating schizophrenia and in attempting to treat patients who had that disorder. These techniques are described in detail in the following pages. With the permission and cooperation of Dr. Cleghorn, a substantial portion of his memoirs has been excerpted.