Encounter with Dr. Gabriella Gobbi, MD, PhD Associate Professor, Neurobiological Psychiatry Unit, Dept. Psychiatry, McGill University and writer David Goudreault.
Wednesday February 1st, 2017 – 6:30pm
Maison des écrivains
3492, avenue Laval, Montréal
RSVP Stéphanie Lemétais ecrivez@uneq.qc.ca 514.849.8540 – Free admission
In the context of the meeting at La Maison des Ecrivains, Gabriella Gobbi will discuss with the writer David Goudreault of the psychophysiology of depression and suicide. She will speak about her experience as a researcher to try to understand this disorder from a biological and psychological point of view. Depression is really a disease in which the neurological factors are intertwined existentially and sociologically in a unique way. Any of these factors can not be overlooked when trying to understand the disease that affects 12% of our population. We will also discuss about a new approach, including the “epigenetic” research, demonstrating how the positive experiences or psychotherapy can help to change the look of our genes, and ultimately transform the experience of depression in resilience.
David Goudreault – First Quebecer to win the World Cup Poetry in Paris in 2011, David Goudreault is a social worker. He was awarded the medal of the National Assembly of Quebec in the autumn of 2011 for his artistic achievements and his social commitment. Was a guest of honor at the Printemps des poètes in Normandy from 2012 to 2014 and was nominated the Patriote de l’année in 2013 by CSQE. Published Premiers soins aux Écrits des Forges in the fall of 2012 and a collection of poems S’édenter la chienne in the fall of 2014. The last one has been recommended by Pierre Foglia in the daily newspaper La Presse, and finalist at the Prix COPO-Comité Poétique. David Goudreault also published in France, with the Universlam edition, in a collection entitled Mines à Vacarmes (2012). In the spring of 2015, published by edition Stanke, his first novel, La bête à sa mère. Bestseller in a few months, this novel was a success among both the readers and critics. He also won the Prix des Nouvelles Voix de la Littérature prize at the book faire of Trois-Rivières and the Grand Prix Littéraire Archambault. His second novel, La bête et sa cage, released in spring 2016.
La bête à sa mère, Montréal : Stanké, 2016
« Ma mère se suicidait souvent. Elle a commencé toute jeune, en amatrice. Très vite, maman a su obtenir la reconnaissance des psychiatres et les égards réservés aux grands malades. Pendant que je collectionnais des cartes de hockey, elle accumulait les diagnostics. » Le drame familial d’un homme seul. Et des chats qui croisent sa route.
La bête à sa cage, Montréal : Stanké, 2016
« J’ai encore tué quelqu’un. Je suis un tueur en série. D’accord, deux cadavres, c’est une petite série, mais c’est une série quand même. Et je suis jeune. Qui sait jusqu’où les opportunités me mèneront ? L’occasion fait le larron, le meurtrier ou la pâtissière. C’est documenté. » La prison brise les hommes, mais la cage excite les bêtes.
Gabriella Gobbi is an associate professor in the Department of Psychiatry at McGill University and a researcher-Clinic at the McGill University Health Centre in Montreal, Canada. She obtained a doctorate in medicine in 1991 and her specialty in psychiatry and psychotherapy in 1995 at the Università Cattolica in Rome. She also obtained a doctorate (Ph.D) in Neuroscience at the University of Cagliari. She then moved to Montreal, completing a full scholarship in 1998, after which she became an assistant professor at the University of Montreal in 2002 and associate professor at McGill University in 2008. Currently directs a research laboratory and works as a psychiatrist at the Clinique de troubles de l’humeur au Centre universitaire de santé McGill. Author of scientific manuscripts, books and also holds two international patents in psychopharmacology. Received numerous scholarships, awards from Instituts canadiens de recherche en santé (ICRS), from Fonds de la Recherche en Santé du Québec, from the Fondation canadienne de recherche en psychiatrie (FCRP), from the Fondation canadienne pour l’innovation (FCI). She also obtained the Prix Jeune chercheur du Collège canadien de Neuropsychopharmacologie prize in 2012 and the Venezia prize in 2015 and she is member of the American College of Neuropsychopharmarcology.
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