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Donald Ewen Cameron Fonds

fonds1941-1971MG1098

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Held by
McGill University Archives via McGill University Archival Collections
Creator
Cameron, Donald Ewen, 1901-1967
Dates
1941-1971 (indexed as 1941–1971)
Level
fonds
Extent
10 cm of textual records -- 3 reels of microfilm
Scope & content
Fonds consists of Dr. Ewen Cameron's teaching materials, articles, addresses, and a file of material regarding the Nazi leader Rudolf Hess and his claims of amnesia during the Nuremberg trials in 1946, as well as a couple files of biographical interest on Cameron. Teaching materials consist of notes for a seminar on tension and anxiety for military psychiatric personnel (1943). Articles and addresses comprise a draft, with letter from the McGill Medical Journal, an article on psychiatric education (1944) an address to the American Psychiatric Association on day-hospitals (1947), opening remarks for the World Congress of Psychiatry meeting (1961), and "Some thoughts on my years as director of the (Allan Memorial) Institute" (1964). There are also a few reprints of articles on memory, psychiatric training, and hospitalization. The file on Rudolf Hess contains trial transcripts, examination reports, Cameron's contemporary notes on Hess's condition, and some later comments on and correspondence about the proceedings (1945-1947). Biographical materials consists of a copy of Cameron's letter of appointment at McGill (1943), and a biographical sketch by Dorothy Trainor of the Allan Memorial Institute.
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Subjects
Allan Memorial Institute; McGill University. Department of Psychiatry.; Psychiatry; Nuremberg Trial of Major German War Criminals, Nuremberg, Germany, 1945-1946
Genre / form
Correspondence.; Lecture notes.; Research notes.; Microfilms.
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