The crazies cry for help is the title of a book written by Jean-Charles Pagé in 1961 on psychiatric hospitals in Quebec in the 1950s.

Pagé was a patient of the Saint-Jean-de-Dieu psychiatric hospital, located in Montreal, then named Hôpital Louis-H. Lafontaine, then University Institute in Mental Health of Montreal. This book, published by Editions du Jour, is his testimony on the treatment and living conditions in psychiatric hospitals of the time, which he describes as being almost prisons, while denouncing the administration of religious communities. / p>

The postface was written by Dr. Camille Laurin, a psychiatrist and subsequently a politician, which provided an important guarantee for Pagé's testimony. The book provoked a crisis and led in 1962 to the establishment by the Quebec government of the Study Commission of Psychiatric Hospitals. edit code This article is a draft concerning Quebec.

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