Mental health and literature at the 15th Bleu Met Festival – April 22 to 28, 2013 2013-04-12
The 15th Blue Met Festival and the Douglas Institute present the “Literature and Mental Health” track. From April 22 to 28, 2013, the public will have the opportunity to rediscover great writers w...

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The Douglas wins the 2013 AQESSS internal communications award 2013-04-10
The Douglas Institute, a proud member of the Réseau Universitaire Intégré de Santé (RUIS) McGill, has received the 2013 internal communications award bestowed by the Association québécoise d'établi...

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Total closure of the Jolicoeur station from May 6 to August 25 2013-04-10
The Jolicoeur station will be closed for a period of 16 weeks, from May 6 to August 25, so as to proceed with major renovation work. Due to the size of the work site and the volume of demolition re...

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The Douglas Institute certified as a Healthy Enterprise 2013-04-03
The Douglas is the first mental health institution to receive this certification
The Douglas Mental Health University Institute has become the first mental health institution in the province to be granted Healthy Enterprise certification by the Bureau de normalisation du Québec...

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Hôpital Louis-H. Lafontaine has become the Institut universitaire en santé mentale de Montréal 2013-03-22
Both this institute and the Douglas will maintain their respective mandates
The Douglas Institute congratulates the Institut universitaire en santé mentale de Montréal on its new designation. The Hôpital Louis-H. Lafontaine adopted this new title on March 5. This is an opp...

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The Bal des lumières: Over $1.1 million raised for mental health 2013-03-21
Québec's largest ever fundraising initiative in support of mental health
Yesterday evening, the Bal des lumières event in support of mental health was held at the Bell Centre. With more than 800 guests, including Premier Pauline Marois, the evening helped raise more tha...

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Lynne McVey participates in a Web documentary about nurses 2013-03-19
The Sur les étages Web documentary takes a new look inside the nursing profession. This documentary includes both a film that will be broadcast on RDI and tou.tv and a website that profiles eight n...

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Serge Gauthier receives the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Medal 2013-03-17
Serge Gauthier, MD, FRCPC, was decorated with the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal on Sunday, March 17 in Montreal. This commemorative medal, which marks the 60th anniversary of Queen Eliza...

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Parle-moi d’amour at the Wellington Centre raises $12,260 2013-03-15
The Parle-moi d’amour exhibit and auction at the Wellington Centre closed at 8:00 p.m. on March 12 with sales totalling $12,260, or $2,000 more than the target result. The 70 works of art put up fo...

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Propranolol doesn't make people forget 2013-02-27
Alain Brunet, Ph.D., sets the record straight
On February 23, an article by journalist Josée Blanchette appeared in Le Devoir about a psychoanalyst who works with refugees. In this interview, Michel Peterson criticizes the use of propranolol a...

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