Maxine Sigman

Biography

Dr. Sigman is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at McGill University, and she is the staff psychologist in the in-patient psychiatry service at the Jewish General Hospital. Dr. Sigman supervises psychology interns at the master’s and doctoral levels from multiple universities in Quebec and serves on the management and the continuous quality improvement committees of the in-patient service. She chairs the multi-disciplinary team meetings and has published articles on her clinical work with individuals and families, with a long-term group of severely ill individuals, and within the hospital setting itself. Her research has focused on outcomes of long-term group therapy with chronically ill individuals suffering from schizophrenia and outcomes of compulsory out-patient treatment orders. Dr. Sigman has a private practice as a psychologist.             

Research Interest

Adult psychology