Madness, Pt. 1: The Sleep Room
Endless Thread
WBUR
4.1 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 23 April 2020
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
In our first episode, we share powerful accounts of abuse at a psychiatric hospital in Montreal, and we introduce the renowned doctor who conducted these disturbing experiments on his unwitting patients.
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"Madness" unravels the shocking history of CIA-funded mind-control experiments. Co-hosts Ben Brock Johnson and Amory Sivertson, along with producer Josh Swartz, investigate how the stigma around mental illness, combined with government secrecy, can silence the truth.
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| 0:31.0 | Check, check, check, check, check. |
| 0:34.0 | Once again, Amory, Seavritson and I are setting up our recording kit. |
| 0:39.0 | I was going to make you just like hold the umbrella over my head in the kit. |
| 0:43.0 | It is a stormy day in Montreal and we are in an eerie place known as the Allen Memorial Institute. |
| 0:50.0 | I did reach out to the Allen Memorial for an interview and they did not want to talk. |
| 0:57.0 | So we're not here to talk, just to look. |
| 1:00.0 | The Allen is really where the story we're going to tell you today all started. |
| 1:04.0 | I mean the weather certainly isn't helping right now, but it does... |
| 1:12.0 | It does look like a prison. |
| 1:15.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:16.0 | Amory and I are making our way down a mountainside towards this group of buildings, |
| 1:21.0 | which is merged on the eastern slope of Mount Royal Park, |
| 1:25.0 | an ancient volcanic mountain that gave the city of Montreal its name. |
| 1:29.0 | You can see why. |
| 1:30.0 | Mount Royal is this big bump of green that rises up out of the middle of the city. |
| 1:35.0 | It's pretty. |
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