In 1982, after consultation with the Canadian government, the Director-General of WHO designates the Douglas Mental Health University Institute as the first Collaborating Centre for research and training in mental health in Canada.

Douglas Hospital was founded in 1881 by Alfred Perry and a group of Protestant clergy and Montréal citizens.

His research aims to improve access to health care in the fields of mental health, homelessness and dependency

Has psychiatry rid us of the concept of "madness"? A 2008 lecture by Mimi Israël on the history of psychiatry (in French).

The history of the Douglas over the past one hundred and twenty-five years.

Open Letter to Borough of Verdun and City of Montréal Elected Officials

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

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

In celebration of its 125th anniversary, the Douglas Hospital proudly welcomes the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal to its magnificent grounds for an outdoor performance.

Sorry, folks. It took a while to find my writing discipline again. Here is something I published yesterday on the rising trend of identity politics in the Huffington Post. (See: Tribalism Remains Mankind’s Most Dangerous Instinct) CAN WE LEARN FROM HISTORY? Here’s a disturbing thought. If human nature produced the atrocities of the last century, [...]