Pierre Mailloux

Pierre Mailloux (born January 14, 1949), better known as Doc Mailloux or Docteur Mailloux, is a psychiatrist and was the host of a French-language talk show with Janine Ross on CKAC radio in Montreal from 1995 to 2007.

He was born in Normandin in the Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean region of Quebec. He studied medicine at Université Laval, in Quebec City, and psychiatry at McGill University, in Montreal.

In 1975, after serving as psychiatrist for the Canadian Forces, he started working with assault offenders and participated in numerous trials as an expert witness on the psychiatric domain.

Mailloux was assigned to the Denis Lortie case. According to Mailloux, Lortie suffered from paranoid schizophrenia and had organized his crime during a psychotic episode, believing he was acting on instructions from God[3]. Nevertheless, in 1985, Lortie was convicted of first-degree murder, but a new trial was ordered due to legal errors. Lortie pleaded guilty to reduced charges of second-degree murder in 1987.

In 1995, he started his radio career with CKAC, a Montreal radio station. Over the years, the title of his radio show on Radiomédia network has changed from Un psy à l'écoute to Deux psy à l'écoute to Doc Mailloux. However, in 2007, CKAC became a sports station and the program was cancelled. He is currently on a Quebec City radio station called "Radio X".

He is the author of several books, including Pour la castration volontaire des pédophiles (2001, ), Au secours des femmes (2001, ), Pour l'amour des enfants : Non aux châtiments corporels! (2002, ) and Pour élever ses enfants : Prière de ne pas les rabaisser... (2006, ).

He is notorious for his controversial on-air comments and in 2002 was officially reprimanded by the Collège des médecins for making a diagnosis on the air, comments considered "unworthy of a doctor" and inaccurate information he gave about a drug.

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