Mental Illness: The Facts and the Fiction The theme of the 2009 Session of Mini-Psych is Mental Illness: The Facts and the Fiction. Each of the 6 classes given by an expert from the Douglas Institute is exploring the

Fellowships provide support for senior residents who wish to add to their experience by engaging in mental health research and related activities in the Institute. Candidacy must be approved by the Chair of Psychiatry.

The Douglas shares its knowledge with students, staff members, researchers, mental health professionals, workers, and the general public.

For over two decades, Ellen Corin has worked within provincial, national, and international arenas to introduce the concepts and methods developed in anthropology to the field of research and clinical practice in psychiatry.

As the professional chief of psychology , Margaret Peggy O'Byrne is responsible for evaluating the quality of professional acts of psychologists.

Profile of Willine Rozefort, Acting Director of Professional and Hospital Services, Douglas Institute

The research of Myra Piat focuses on housing for persons with serious mental illness and recovery from serious mental illness.

Thomas Brown studies the development of psychosocial interventions to combat substance abuse.

The researchers working on the “Services, policy and population health” theme come from a wide variety of disciplinary backgrounds: psychiatry, epidemiology, law, anthropology, economy, psychology, social work, administration. Their goal is to inspire and influence developments in mental health policy so that people living with a mental illness can obtain the care and services to which they are entitled. To accomplish this, the researchers: Study the organization of mental health s...

Alain Brunet, PhD, presided the International Conference on the use of the Internet in mental health, May 14 to 16, 2009.