[Feasibility of a psychoeducation group for patients with anorexia nervosa: An open study].

Introduction: Management of anorexia nervosa is difficult and few treatments have shown their effectiveness, justifying the exploration of new therapeutic approaches. Available evidence suggests an interest of psychoeducational groups in a significant number of psychiatric disorders. In patients suffering from anorexia, to date there are few groups or interventions available.

[The Institute Philippe-Pinel and the department of Psychiatry of the University of Montreal: intricate paths].

The Institute Philippe-Pinel (IPPM) and the Département de psychiatrie de l'Université de Montréal, who are both celebrating their 50 years, have intricated paths and a long history of collaboration. Since its conception (1964), the Institute Philippe-Pinel was planned to become a site for training and teaching in the bosom of the Université de Montréal.Unique in its mission to offer state of the art psychiatric care and forensic assessments to patients presenting a high risk of violence, the Institute Philippe-Pinel, throughout the years, was also able to leave its mark by the way of academic teaching to psychiatric residents and trainees of all disciplines, of organizing national and international conferences, of research and by the publication of numerous articles and books in the field of forensic psychiatry.

[Treatment progress scale for violent psychosis patients].

Objectives: The dangerousness of psychiatric patients is related to many well-documented factors in literature. To better document the course of dangerousness in most violent psychotic patients with severe and persistent diseases, we have developed a Treatment Progress Scale (TPS).

Method: The TPS was developed based on the literature research and the expertise of a multidisciplinary team.