Hervé Bertrand was sold for $10 to be experimented on. His story leads us deep into Quebec's darkest secret: the Duplessis orphans, thousands of healthy children reclassified overnight as mentally ill. And will the Mohawk Mothers uncover the truth?
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Reckless Doses
2026/04/14 | 26 mins.
A self portrait triggers a young woman to be sent for psychiatric treatment, forever changing her life. Alyssa Ryvers tells the story of her mother Carol — a patient of Dr. Heinz Lehmann, the man who revolutionised psychiatry with a drug he found in a journal while sitting in his bathtub. But was he helping his patients?
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The CIA
2026/04/07 | 30 mins.
The work of Dr Ewen Cameron caught the attention of the American intelligence agency, the CIA…but did he ever know who was bankrolling his work? And what other projects were the CIA funding?
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Morningstar
2026/03/31 | 31 mins.
Lana’s revelations about a friend she made at The Allan open an entirely new investigation. One spearheaded by a group of indigenous women called the Mohawk Mothers, who believe there are bodies buried under The Allan.
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The Puppeteer
2026/03/24 | 25 mins.
Dr Ewen Cameron is the man behind mind control experiments, and the person Lana Ponting holds responsible for her fractured memories. As Lana tries to piece together what happened to her at The Allan, she makes some shocking discoveries.
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Criminal psychologist Dr Julia Shaw follows the story of one teenage runaway in 1958 into a shadow world of experiments on children, covert CIA involvement, and vanished indigenous children. In Project Mind Control, we hear a story of an international effort to weaponise psychology and control human behaviour. The truth may never be fully revealed, but the crimes demand to be uncovered. In 1958, teenage runaway Lana Ponting was sent to one of Canada’s most notorious psychiatric institutions: The Allan Institute. Now Dr Julia Shaw speaks to her about the experiments she endured there, designed to break down and rebuild the human mind through electroshocks, drugs, and barbaric treatments. Decades later, Lana is one of the last known survivors. Her memories are fractured but what she remembers is enough to expose something far bigger than one hospital. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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