Lise Laporte

Biography

Dr. Laporte is an assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry at McGill University. She is a psychologist who holds positions as a researcher in the MUHC, where she works in the Personality Disorder Program, and at the research centre of the Centre Jeunesse de Montréal-Institut Universitaire (CJM-IU). Over the last decade, through her work at the MUHC, Dr. Laporte has conducted research on psychosocial factors related to the development of borderline personality disorder (BPD), particularly in the areas of family relationships, dysfunctional parenting styles, and different types of childhood maltreatment. She was principal co-investigator of a FRSQ-funded grant on siblings of women with BPD, examining psychosocial differences between the sisters with a focus on a history of abuse and neglect. In previous research, Dr. Laporte studied dysfunctional relationships between parents and women with BPD by directly interviewing both parents and patients with BPD about early life events. In addition, her work at the CJM-IU further expanded her expertise in family violence, with a particular emphasis on factors associated with risk for child maltreatment, psychological maltreatment, and violence in youth relationships. Over the last six years, her work has been mainly devoted to the impact of borderline pathology in the parents of children involved with youth protection services on the psychosocial functioning of their children. This role as clinical and research consultant has led to a better understanding of the realities of these children, the difficulties in working with these parents, and problems in collaboration between youth protection services and psychiatry.             

Research Interest

Psychiatry