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In the Sleep Room

Anne Collins

An account of the experiments carried out by Canadian psychiatrist Ewen Cameron, in which patients at the Allan Memorial Institute were subjected to treatments involving drugs, electroshock therapy, and chemically induced sleep in an effort to better understand brainwashing.

Medicine & Public HealthMedicine & Public Health · medium confidenceMedicine & Public Health81 signalsLlm Classifier: Medicine & Public Health -> Medicine & Public HealthOpen Library: Biography -> BiographyOpen Library: Psychotropic Drugs -> Medicine & Public HealthDisease, Epidemics & DrugsDrugs, Addiction & TreatmentDeath, Memory & CommemorationEssays & Cultural Criticism

Award History

1 wins · 1 total

AwardYearResultCategory / Notes
Governor General's Literary Awards: English-language Non-fictionMajor1988WinnerSecondary source
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  1. 01 Central figures

    • Ewen Cameron72%

  2. 02 Central places

    None extracted with sufficient confidence.

  3. 03 Suggested argument

    No argument inferred with sufficient confidence.

  4. 04 Reading orientation

    34 / 100 academic

    Serious trade

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Confidence percentages are the model's own estimates. Profile confidence: 62%.