As Director General of the Douglas from 1971 to 1988, Gaston Harnois, MD, paved the route of community psychiatry.

For Ellen Corin, PhD, the past 27 years in Montreal have spanned psychology and anthropology, the West and the developing world. There is one unifying element through her career, it is that it was not her own, but other people's stories that were impo

2008 season of the Douglas Institute's Mini-Psych School

Frames of Mind celebrates its fifth edition- Special screening of Borderline with participation by Marie-Sissi Labrèche

Douglas Hospital and Research Centre become Douglas Mental Health University Institute.

125 Thoughts from the Douglas: Hospital launches book chronicling impressions over the years

Montréal, June 26, 2006 – Today is a landmark day for the Douglas Hospital. Mr. Henri-François Gautrin, Minister of Government Services and MNA for Verdun, on behalf of the Minister of Health and Social Services, Mr. Philippe Couil

The Hollywood animated feature Shrek packs a serious message about body image in its comic story about an ogre.

In May 2003, Douglas Hospital honours eminent psychiatrist, Dr. Charles H. Cahn,for 52 years of dedicated service.

Is being transgender/homosexual a mental illness?When it comes to sexual aspects, psychiatry has not had a brilliant history. Homosexuality was considered a disease up to the 1970’s, and it even used to be a classification in the Diagnostic and