Cameron Papers (1 of 4)
miscellaneous papers, 1934-1967; the American Psychiatric
Association, 1949-1967; and the World Psychiatric Association,
1950-1967.
SERIES: Articles and Speeches
Dr. Cameron filed his speeches in chronological order. In the
first folder are his original, but incomplete, lists. (n.d. - no date
known.)
Archives Box 100669
DONALD EWEN CAMERON
(1901-1967) PAPERS
ARCHIVES FINDING AID
[Processed by W. E. Baxter, 22 January, 1985.]
BIOGRAPHY
Donald Ewen Cameron was born in Bridge of Allen, Scotland,
in December of 1901. He attended Stifling High School 1908-1913;
Glasgow Academy 1913-1919; and the University of Glasgow
where he received an MB in 1924. In 1925, he received the
diploma in psychological medicine from the University of London.
He received the M.D. from Glasgow in 1936.
Cameron started his career at the Royal Mental Hospital in
Glasgow under D. K. Henderson and the influence of Adolf Meyer.
In 1926, he went to the Phipps Clinic for 2 years on the Henderson
Research Scholarship in Psychiatry. While he was with the Boston
Psychopathic Hospital, he was induced to go to the Provincial
Hospital in Manitoba, Canada. He was in charge of the reception
unit there, and organized the mental health work of the western part
of the province. From 1936 to 1938, he was at Worcester. From
there he went to Albany Medical College as a professor of
neurology and psychiatry. In 1943 he went to the McGill University. Cameron was professor of psychiatry and chairman of the
department at McGill University and director of the Allen
Memorial Hospital. On retirement from McGill, he went to the
Veterans Administration Hospital in Albany, New York.
He was president of several organizations: the American
Psychiatric Association, the Quebec Psychiatric Society, the
Canadian Psychiatric Association, the World Psychiatric
Association, the American Psychopathological Association, and the
Society of Biological Psychiatry. He published many books,
articles and papers. He also delivered several speeches.
His accomplishments were many: the Day Hospital was his
idea; he encouraged the formation of the Assembly of District
Branches of the APA while he was president; and he organized the
Third World Congress of Psychiatry which gave birth to the World
Psychiatric Association.
SCOPE AND CONTENTS
The papers of Donald Ewen Cameron came to the Archives of
the American Psychiatric Association in three groups: two in 1977
and the last in 1981. All three have been merged in processing to
form a single record group. The collection totals 5 linear feet and is
comprised of 4 series: articles and speeches, 1930-1967;
Folder 1A
Instant memory list (list of speeches compiled by DEC.)
Folder 1B
Contributions to psychotherapy from experimental
psychology, n.d.
Freedom from fear, n.d.
Mechanism of grievance, n.d.
Modern psychiatric unit, n.d.
Folder 2
New interpretation of human behavior, n.d.
Observations on the playback of verbal communication" n.d.
Organization of research in behavior, n.d.
Proposed use of adenine sulphate..., n.d.
Role of inhabition in senile and arteriosclerotic brain disease,
n.d.
Social reorganization of Germany, n.d.
Folder 3
Treatment of memory deficits in the aged, n.d.
Treatment on the acute ward, n.d.
Urgent mental health questions, n.d.
Causes and treatment of mental disorder, 3/3/1930
Some aspects of failure in the retention phase of remembering,
1/7/1942
Some disorders of remembering, 1943
Opening address, Allen Memorial Institute, 7/12/1944
Return from war, 6/1945
Folder 4
Fantasies and editors, 1946
Teaching of human relations..., 1946
Nuerenberg and its significance, 1/19/1946
Social inventions, 1/24/1946
Lessons on living, 1/31/1946
Hazards of growing up, 3/28/1946
Progress to peace, 5/5/1946
Further studies in the use of adrenalin..., 5/1946
Job misfits-work conditions, 19467
Effects of repetition of verbal signals, 19467
New forms of psychiatric treatment, 10/7/1946
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Cameron Papers (2 of 4)
Archives Box 100669 (cont'd.)
Folder 5
Guilt and anxiety as social controls, 11/18/1946
Victorian Order of Nurses, 1/30/1947
Detection...aggressive...behavior, 3/26/1947
What we read and what we are, 6/4/1947
Recognition of harmful personalities, 6/10/1947
Life is for living, 1948
Personality and society, 2/13/1948
Human relations in industry, 4/15/1948
Folder 6
School and the ordering of the future, 11/18/1948
Sexuality and sexual disorders, 1949
Passivity and possessiveness, 3/21/1949
Welcome to the APA in Montreal, 5/23/1949
Tension and health, 9/23/1949
Folder 7
Emotion and emergency..., 10/20/1949
Mental and emotional problems of the aged, 10/25/1949
Social agencies and mental health, 11/29/1949
Understanding ourselves, 9/6/1951
Recovery from psychiatric illness, 10/2/1951
Dangerous men and women, 10/17/1951
Physician as psychological counselor, 3/24/1952
Psychotherapeutic process..., 4/3/1952
Folder 8
Uses of adjuvants..., 4/16/1952
Relationship...anxiety, pain, tension.., 4/17/1952
Special problems of nondirective psychotherapy, 4/22/1952
Dynamics of general psychotherapy, 4/25/1952
Vulnerable areas in human behavior, 2/19/1953
Transition neurosis, 2/26/1953
Certain loci favorable for therapeutic interference, 3/10/1953
Personalities fit for the times, 4/13/1953
Psychiatry and citizenship, 5/1953
Extended applications of psychosomatic theory..., 10/17/1953
Folder 11
Psychiatric services in the geneneral hospital, 6/8/1956
Psychiatric department in the general hospital, 3/1957
New methods of treatment of behavioral disorders in the aged,
4/28/1957
Effects of the emotional environment on arrest of disease and
rehabilitation, 7/12/1957
Effects of the emotional environment on arrest of disease and
rehabilitiation, 7/11/1958
Memory impairment in the aged, 7/23/1958
Certain problems in the psychophysiology of remembering,
9/1/1958
Emotions and tuberculosis, 6/22/1959
Folder 12
Selective amnesia, 12/3/1959
Essence of psychotherapy, 2/28/1960
Actual state of therapy in depression, 1960
Effects of reduced sensory input..., 1960
Further report on effects of repetition of verbal signals, 1960
Further studies in administration of RNA in the aged patients,
1969
Emotions and tuberculosis, 6/'20/1960
Folder 13
Organized research and national pro-gress, 9/27/1960
Effects of RNA administered on aged patients, 10/1960
Present status...verbal signals... psychosomatic patients,
10/24/1960
Open door, 1961
Folder 14
Repetition and response, 1961
Swing of the pendulum, 1961
Psychiatry and general office practice, 1961
Studies in preservation, 1961
Folder 15
Experimental method in the study of human behavior: central
problems, 1961
Croweil-Collier article, 11/1961
Folder 9
Effects of the emotional environment on the arrest of disease
and rehabilitation, 7/1/1954
Mental fatigue in business executives, 7/1954
Open hospital, 9/3/1954
Changing the undergraduate medical curriculum, 1955
Life is for living, 1/19/1955
Disappearing present, 2/23/1955
Acce!erating of psychotherapy, 4/6/1955
Folder 16
Accident service, 1961
Psychiatry, effective living and community leadership,
11/1961
Avoidance response..., 1/1962 Outdated psychiatry, 1/1962
Ending chronic hospitalization, 2/1962
Recent advances in psychiatric treatment, 3/1962
New Maudsley lecture, 3/1/1962
Folder 10
CBC television talk, 4/29/1955
Disorganization: a psychosomatic principle, 6/3/1955
Effects of the emotional environment on arrest of disease and
rehabilitation, 7/15/1955
Progress in the control of mental illness, 10/11/1955
Psychic driving, 1956
Psychiatry and modern thought, 1/24/1956
Research and the community, 4/19/1956
Human nature in fiction and in fact, 5/24/1956
Folder 17
Effects of intraveneous administration of RNA .... 5/1962
Disorders of remembering .... 5/1962
Effects of the emotional environment on arrest of disease and
rehabilitation, 6/1962
Philosophy of psychiatry, 8/1962
Opening door, (article in Canadian Doctor, no copies here),
9/1962
Extension of psychiatric nursing services, 10/1962
Mind of man, 10/1962
Cameron Papers (3 of 4)
Archives Box 100669 (cont'd.)
Folder 18
Discovery in medicine, 11/1962
Process of remembering, 11/1962
Effects of chemical agents on memory, 1963
Management of anxiety by the general practitioner, 2/1963
Folder 19
Adventures with repetition, 2/1963
Theoretic and practical aspects of the depatterning procedure,
2/1963
Psychotherapy in the U.S., 5/1963
Graduate psychiatric training, 5/1963
Future trends in psychiatry, (no copies here), 5/1963
Occupational therapy...psychiatry, 6/1963
World tour, 1963
Croweil-Collier article, 1963
Folder 20
Effects of RNA on memory defect in the aged, 1963
Selection of a chairman, 1963
Coming days: decisions now, 1963
Opening ceremony-training and research building, 11/1314/1963
McGill training network, 1963
McGill psychology club talk-Memory, 1/24/1964
Folder 21
Marital scene, 2/12/1964
Memory and therapy, 1964
CJOH interview, 3/24/1964
CBC interview, 4/3/1964
RNA and memory (chapter in Gaito's book) 1964
Observations and decisions 4/10/1964
Prevention and its implications for social work 4/29/1964
Folder 22
Medical rounds (originally done in 1962) 1964
Social psychology 5/11/1964
Automation of psychotherapy 11/12/1964
Memorial mechanisms (photographs of charts) 11/17/1964
Folder 23
Six little servants 2/2/1965
Problems of loss of memory 1965
Discussion of Canadian papers at the APA annual meeting"
5/1965
Training of psychiatrists 1965
Uncovering psychotherapy 1965
Folder 24
Memory systems 1965
Panel on memory (APA annual meeting) 5/3/1965
Transfer of information 6/17/1965 Day hospital 1965
3rd Congress of Latin American Psychiatry 10/1965
Opening ceremony-training and research building, 11/1314/1963
McGill training network, 1963
McGill psychology club talk-Memory, 1/24/1964
Folder 25
Nonverbal communication 1965
Memory-advances in research 10/28/1965
Canada's mental health 1965 (automation of psychotherapy)
White House conference 11/1965
Round table-Cincinnati 12/1/1965
Korsakoff syndrome 1965
Attitude of the public 19667
Folder 26
Lectures at the Iowa State University 1/15/1966
Governor's conference, State of New York 5/6/1966
APA meeting papers-phobia panel 5/1966
Public attitudes (acceptance speech) 5/18/1966
Voice analysis 5/1966
RNA and memory 6/9/1966
Folder 27
Evolving concepts of memory 6/12/1966
Present status of macromolecules and memory 1966
Magnesium pemoline and memory 1966 Presidential addressWPA 1966
Folder 28
Day hospital presentation-WPA 4th world Congress 1966
Magnesium pemoline and memory-seminar 9/14/1966
Postgraduate training symposium (4th World Congress) 1966
Agents that improve memory 11/3/1966
Memorial process-functions and dis-functions 11/22/1966
Folder 29
Voice analysis 11/23/1966
Agents affecting the memorial system 11/23/1966
Current concepts of memory 11/29/1966
Society of biological psychiatry (meeting, no papers here)
12/1/1966
Macromolecules and memory 12/1/1966
Psychology club, New York (talk, no papers here) 12/15/1966
Aging memory 1966
Impaired brain functioning 2/6/1967
Geriatrics 3/1/1967
WPA editorial in AJP 3/1/1967
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Folder 30
Agents influencing the memory process 3/9/1967
Use of drugs with the geriatric patient 3/16/1967
Psychiatric aspects of the aging 3/30/1967
Criteria of proof 4/5/1967
Forward to Dr. Sargant's book "The Unquiet Mind" 4/12/1967
Memory and aging 4/14/1967
Paul Hoch memorial volumes 1967
Electronic analysis of nonverbal communication 1967
General psychotherapeutic concepts 1967
Restoring mental faculties in older persons 1967
Cameron Papers (4 of 4)
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SERIES: WPA
SERIES: Miscellaneous Papers
Dr. Cameron was heavily involved in the international
psychiatric movement that culminated in the establishment of the
World Psychi-atric Association at the 3rd World Congress of
Psychiatry. These papers are in his original filing order.
Dr. Cameron was interested in many facets of psychiatric care.
These papers are his general files from 1934 to 1967, mostly from
the late 1950's to 1967. Papers are in their original order.
Archives Box 100670 (cont'd.)
Folders
41. Aging (notes), 1965
42. Corporation Pharmaceutique, 1964
43. Creativity, 1950-1964
44. Day Hospital papers, 1947-1960
45. Gerontological Institute, 19677
46. "Human beings and how to recognize them" (mss. by D.E.C.)
beginning through ch.6.
47. "Human beings and how to recognize them" (mss. by D.E.C.)
ch.7 through end.
48. Longterm physiological and behavioral data storage on human
subjects. (n.d.)
49. "Medical institutes" (work in progress) 1953, 1964-1967
50. "Medical institutes" (mss. by D.E.C.) Introduction through
ch.3.
51. "Medical institutes" (mss. by D.E.C.) Ch.4 through end.
52. Memory (working papers), 1963-1964
53. Miscellaneous papers, 1965
54. Possible papers/books, 1934-1959
55. Psychology notes, 1946-1949, 1952
56. RNA - sound recordings, n.d.
57. RNA - various RNA notes, 1962
58. RNA - correspondence, 1963
59. Royal Medico-Psychological Association, 1961-1962
60. Sanitorium Gabriels, 1965-1967
61. "Some new conceptions" background material, 1954-1959
62. "Some new conceptions" (mss. by D.E.C.) 1954-1959, 19631965
63. World Congress (IV) of Psychiatry, 1965-1966
SERIES: American Psychiatric Association
Papers in this series represent Dr. Cameron's involvement with
the APA, particularly after his term as president, 1952-1953. He
was very involved with the formation of the Assembly of District
Branches. Papers are in their original filing arrangement.
Archives Box 100670 (cont'd.)
Folder
31. 1965-1967
32. Ad hoc study group on dynamic leadership, 1967
33. Assembly of District Branches 1950-1960 (mostly 1950,
miscellaneous)
34. Assembly of District Branches 1950-1951 (mostly 1951)
35. Assembly of District Branches1952
36. Assembly of District Branches 1956-1961
37. Assembly of District Branches correspondence, reports 19631964 (some 1949-1952)
38. Assembly of District Branches tape/oral history project, 19631964
39. Early history (includes oral history by D.E.C. on Assembly)
40. LongTerm Policies Commission agendas, minutes, 1953-1962
Folder
64. Constitution/articles of association, 1950-1962
65. Correspondence, to 1962
66. Correspondence, 1963
67. Correspondence, 1964
68. Correspondence, 1965
69. Correspondence, 1966
70. Correspondence, 1967
71. Correspondence, regional confer-ences, 1964-1966
72. Correspondence, World Health Organization, 1961-1966
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Folder
73. Executive committee, 1962-1966
74. Finance committee, 1964-1965
75. History (letters, reports, etc.), 1957-1966
76. Journal (International Journalof Neuropsychaitr), 1965-1967
77. Membership correspondence, 1964-1966
78 - 80. Miscellaneous papers, 1960-1964
81 - 82. Miscellaneous papers, 1960-1964
83. Newsletter correspondence, 1966; newsletter bank account,
1966-1967
84. Nominating committee, 1965-1966
85. "Permanent folder" (miscellaneous materials for executive
officers upon election),
1961-1966
86. Publicity, 1961-1962
