{"id":114179,"date":"2026-11-13T15:25:49","date_gmt":"2026-11-13T20:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurivision.ca\/?p=114179"},"modified":"2026-11-13T15:55:45","modified_gmt":"2026-11-13T20:55:45","slug":"soigner-et-contraindre-a-new-docu-course-on-mental-health-and-the-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurivision.ca\/en\/soigner-et-contraindre-a-new-docu-course-on-mental-health-and-the-law\/","title":{"rendered":"“Soigner et contraindre”: a new Docu-Course on mental health and the law"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
What is it like to be hospitalized against your will? And how well do the law and clinical practice account for that experience? These questions lie at the heart of “Soigner et contraindre : regards crois\u00e9s sur la sant\u00e9 mentale et le droit” (Care and Coercion: Intersecting Perspectives on Mental Health and the Law), a new Docu-Course designed by Professor Emmanuelle Bernheim and the Jurivision team. It approaches them through legal, clinical and social lenses.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In Quebec, a health care institution must go to court to hospitalize someone whose mental state poses a danger, or to treat someone found incapable of consenting to care. These measures are meant to be exceptional, yet they are becoming more common in Canada and abroad. Their impact on patients, on the therapeutic relationship and on rights and human dignity remains little understood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPeople who are hospitalized or treated against their will are rarely heard, even though these procedures seriously infringe on their liberty and can be traumatic,\u201d says Professor Bernheim, Canada Research Chair in Mental Health and Access to Justice. \u201cWe wanted their perspectives to be our starting point. Any examination of the law and of care practices has to begin with what patients actually go through.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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La professeure Emmanuelle Bernheim lors du lancement de “Soigner et contraindre” \u00e0 l\u2019Espace Innova, le 5 novembre.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Soigner et contraindre<\/em> is available free of charge, in French, on Jurivision.ca<\/span><\/a>. It was designed for law and health sciences students, community organizations and mental health professionals, as well as anyone who wants to better understand these issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An interdisciplinary approach grounded in lived experience<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Docu-Course opens with the testimony of Gis\u00e8le, a woman who was placed under treatment orders while experiencing homelessness. Gis\u00e8le agreed to share her experience on the condition that she could not be identified. Her interview was transcribed and stripped of any identifying details, and her words are voiced by an actress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her story runs like a thread through the course\u2019s many themes: coercion and its effects on the therapeutic relationship, barriers to accessing healthcare, the stigma faced by people living with mental health conditions, racial discrimination and its impact on health, the evolution of mental health law, and Indigenous perspectives on mental health and healing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Professor Bernheim conducted filmed interviews with mental health professionals, including forensic psychiatrist Marie-Fr\u00e9d\u00e9rique Allard; criminal and health law lawyers, among them Jean-Pierre M\u00e9nard; a notary; and two University of Ottawa professors, Eva Ottawa of the Civil Law Section and Jude Mary C\u00e9nat of the School of Psychology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Les profs. Eva Ottawa et Jude Mary C\u00e9nat ainsi que l’infirmi\u00e8re M\u00e9lina D\u00e9sy-B\u00e9dard, qui ont particip\u00e9 \u00e0 la docu-formation, lors d’une table ronde au lancement sur la sant\u00e9 mentale, la colonisation et la discrimination.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Where research meets documentary filmmaking<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The project brings together academics (Professor Bernheim and Edith Perrault, a doctoral candidate in law at the University of Ottawa) and audiovisual professionals (the Jurivision team and filmmaker Marie-H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Panniset).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cA documentary can do what a textbook or a lecture can\u2019t,\u201d says \u00c9tienne Tr\u00e9panier, Senior Manager, Educational Innovation and Mobilization, at the Civil Law Section, and Director of Jurivision. \u201cIt lets us hear, in a human and engaging way, from people who have experienced coercion and from those who support them, and then bring those perspectives into conversation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Nicolas Monet, de l’\u00e9quipe Jurivision, pr\u00e9sente la docu-formation lors de l’\u00e9v\u00e9nement de lancement.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The format is built to travel well beyond law and health sciences faculties. \u201cWe want it to reach healthcare settings, community organizations and law firms, the places where these issues play out every day,\u201d he adds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The project was made possible with financial support from the Fonds d\u2019\u00e9tudes notariales of the Chambre des notaires du Qu\u00e9bec, the Law Foundation of Ontario and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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L\u2019infirmier David Pelosse, les avocats Me Patrick M\u00e9nard-Martin et Me F\u00e9lix-Antoine T. Doyon ainsi que la psychiatre l\u00e9giste Marie-Fr\u00e9d\u00e9rique Allard, qui ont particip\u00e9 \u00e0 la docu-formation, lors d’une table ronde sur l\u2019acc\u00e8s aux soins et \u00e0 la justice.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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What is it like to be hospitalized against your will? And how well do the law and clinical practice account for that experience? These questions lie at the heart of “Soigner et contraindre : regards crois\u00e9s sur la sant\u00e9 mentale et le droit” (Care and Coercion: Intersecting Perspectives on Mental Health and the Law), a new Docu-Course designed by Professor Emmanuelle Bernheim and the Jurivision team. It approaches them through legal, clinical and social lenses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":114188,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[78,22,137,356],"class_list":["post-114179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-knowledge","tag-access-to-justice","tag-criminal-law","tag-health-law","tag-mental-health"],"acf":[],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":27,"label":"JuriKnowledge"}],"post_tag":[{"value":78,"label":"Access to Justice"},{"value":22,"label":"Criminal Law"},{"value":137,"label":"Health Law"},{"value":356,"label":"Mental health"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/jurivision.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/JxSM-cover-01-1024x576.jpg",1024,576,true],"author_info":{"display_name":"Patrick Walton","author_link":"https:\/\/jurivision.ca\/en\/author\/patrick\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":27,"name":"JuriKnowledge","slug":"knowledge","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":27,"taxonomy":"category","description":"Video publications about legal issues, highlighting the work of legal scholars or the activities of legal practitioners.","parent":0,"count":87,"filter":"raw","term_order":"0","cat_ID":27,"category_count":87,"category_description":"Video publications about legal issues, highlighting the work of legal scholars or the activities of legal practitioners.","cat_name":"JuriKnowledge","category_nicename":"knowledge","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":[{"term_id":78,"name":"Access to Justice","slug":"access-to-justice","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":78,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":30,"filter":"raw","term_order":"0"},{"term_id":22,"name":"Criminal Law","slug":"criminal-law","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":22,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":19,"filter":"raw","term_order":"0"},{"term_id":137,"name":"Health Law","slug":"health-law","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":137,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":6,"filter":"raw","term_order":"0"},{"term_id":356,"name":"Mental health","slug":"mental-health","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":356,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":1,"filter":"raw","term_order":"0"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurivision.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurivision.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurivision.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurivision.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurivision.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114179"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/jurivision.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114190,"href":"https:\/\/jurivision.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114179\/revisions\/114190"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurivision.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurivision.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurivision.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurivision.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}