Editing MKUltra (section)

===Motivation and assessments===
His work was inspired and paralleled by the British psychiatrist [[William Sargant]] at [[St Thomas' Hospital]], London, and [[Belmont Hospital, Sutton]], who was also involved in the [[Secret Intelligence Service]] and who experimented on his patients without their consent, causing similar long-term damage.<ref>{{cite book |last=Collins |first=Anne |orig-date=1988 |year=1998 |title=In the Sleep Room: The story of CIA brainwashing experiments in Canada |publisher=Key Porter Books |location=Toronto |pages=39, 42–43, 133 |isbn=1-55013-932-0}}</ref>

In the 1980s, several of Cameron's former patients sued the CIA for damages, which the Canadian news program ''[[The Fifth Estate (TV series)|The Fifth Estate]]'' documented.<ref>{{cite web |title=MK Ultra episodes |series=40&nbsp;years of ''The Fifth Estate'' |website=Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) |url=http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/episodes/40-years-of-the-fifth-estate/mk-ultra}}</ref> Their experiences and lawsuit were adapted in the 1998 television miniseries [[The Sleep Room (1998 film)|''The Sleep Room'']].<ref name="The Sleep Room at IMDB">{{cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0138104/ |title=The Sleep Room |date=31 March 1998 |website=[[IMDb]]}}</ref>

[[Naomi Klein]] argues in her book ''[[The Shock Doctrine]]'' that Cameron's research and his contribution to the MKUltra project was not about mind control and brainwashing, but about designing "a scientifically based system for extracting information from 'resistant sources'. In other words, torture."<ref name=Shock>{{cite book |last=Klein |first=N. |author-link=Naomi Klein |year=2007 |title=The Shock Doctrine |publisher=Metropolitan Books |isbn=978-0-676-97801-8 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=C0KIy92V58wC&pg=PA37 |via=Google Books |pages=[https://books.google.com/books?id=C0KIy92V58wC&pg=PA37 39–41]}}</ref>

[[Alfred W. McCoy]] writes, "Stripped of its bizarre excesses, Dr. Cameron's experiments, building upon [[Donald O. Hebb]]'s earlier breakthrough, laid the scientific foundation for the CIA's two-stage psychological torture method",<ref name=McCoy2006/> referring to first creating a state of [[disorientation]] in the subject, and then creating a situation of "self-inflicted" discomfort in which the disoriented subject can alleviate pain by capitulating.<ref name=McCoy2006>{{cite journal |last=McCoy |first=Alfred |author-link=Alfred W. McCoy |year=2006 |title=Cruel science: CIA torture and U.S. foreign policy |journal=Sticks and Stones <!-- : Living with uncertain wars, by Padraig O'Malley et al., eds. --> |pages=172–174 |isbn=1-55849-535-5 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dbGDjfx0XxcC&pg=PA173 |via=Google Books}}</ref>