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The Out of Darkness Project: Innovative Multimedia Digital Storytelling in Psychiatry

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Acknowledgements

The authors wish to thank those who shared their stories in the Out of Darkness project.

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Funding Sunnybrook Foundation Brenda Smith Fund, the Ganz Family and Peterson Family.

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  1. Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    Ari Zaretsky, Sara Morassaei, Lisa Di Prospero & Elizabeth McLaney

  2. McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

    Hallie Rodney & Joanna Jarecki

  3. Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    Kathryn Parker

  4. Sunnybrook Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    Csilla Kalocsai & Lesley Gotlib Conn

  5. Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    Ivan Silver

  6. Q Media Solutions, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    Dorothy Engelman

  7. University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    Joe-Anne Vanhorn

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Zaretsky, A., Rodney, H., Morassaei, S. et al. The Out of Darkness Project: Innovative Multimedia Digital Storytelling in Psychiatry. Acad Psychiatry 46, 644–649 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40596-022-01637-w

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