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Abstract
The author, a psychiatrist, has worked at the Centre hospitalier Robert Giffard (formerly St. Michel-Archange) at Quebec, for almost 30 years. In this article he brings to life, using many of his experiences, the history of the evolution of this institution as well as that of the evolution of Quebec psychiatry as a whole. He reviews the living conditions of the patients and those of the treatment staff since the beginning of the 1950* s. He allows us to remember that scientific as well as social progress have permitted a more humane approach to those people whom we have labelled insane.