Louis Pinard

Louis Pinard is an assistant professor of Clinical Psychiatry at McGill University. Dr Pinard has been extensively involved in the psychiatry residency training program and he continues being actively implicated in the teaching and supervision of trainees in psychotherapy. In his clinical practice, beside his interest as consultant to in-patient medical and surgical wards as well as to out-patient rheumatological and immunological clinics, he has developed an expertise in the evaluation and treatment of patients affected by psychosomatic ailments within a psychodynamic perspective. He is also a certified psychoanalyst in private practice involved in the training of candidates at the Canadian Psychoanalytical Society and he has recently joined a inter-university franco-québécois research group looking at modifications to be implemented to the psychotherapeutic setting with severely disturbed patients.