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- Title
Les Soeurs de la Providence et les psychiatres modernistes: enjeux professionnels en santé mentale au Québec, 1910-1965.
- Authors
Perreault, Isabelle; Thifault, Marie-Claude
- Abstract
The Sisters of Providence, owners of the Saint-Jean-de-Dieu asylum since 1873, renewed their second contract with the Quebec government in 1924. Over the next fifty years, they undertook to feed, maintain, treat and rehabilitate mental patients. During the 1940s and 1950s the inter-personal and inter-professional relations between the sisters and a group of young psychiatrists, so-called modernists, became difficult. The proper therapeutic climate fell victim to political interests within the institution. These tensions are explicitly revealed in 1962 in the Bédard Report on the study of psychiatric hospitals in Quebec. Information about the tensions between the sisters and the psychiatrists from the Second World War until the 1970s, has long been ignored in historical discourse, thus failing until now to reveal all aspects or consequences related to care of the mentally ill. It is this important struggle around the religious status of Saint-Jean-de-Dieu that we intend to highlight in this article.
- Subjects
CANADA; REHABILITATION of people with mental illness; NUNS; PSYCHIATRISTS; INTERPROFESSIONAL relations; PSYCHIATRY &; religion; ASYLUMS (Institutions); MENTAL health &; religion; MENTAL health personnel; MENTAL health; HISTORY of psychiatry; PEOPLE with mental illness; HISTORY of Quebec (Province); TWENTIETH century; HISTORY
- Publication
Études d'Histoire Religieuse, 2012, Vol 78, Issue 2, p59
- ISSN
1193-199X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7202/1013044ar