This proposal refers to the 26,298 hospitalization dossiers of the "Hospício de Pedro II" (1844-1889), later called "Hospício Nacional de Alienados" (1889-1944), the first asylum for insane people in ...

Mental health care remains a somewhat neglected medical specialty, at least when it comes to getting patients access to adequate coverage for even basic needs. But in the 1950s, when lobotomy and ...

This fact-based period drama about a system-fighting Brazilian psychiatrist won the Audience award for best fiction feature at the recent Rio festival. By Jonathan Holland Imagine the polar opposite ...

Of all the abductions, this one is different.

Other winners include All Three of Us, Cold of Kalandar, Land Of Mine, God Willing and Family Film. Roberto Berliner’s Nise - The Heart of Madness, based on the true story of a Brazilian psychiatrist, ...

“Nise — The Heart of Madness,” Brazilian director Roberto Berliner’s biopic about a crusading woman doctor in a Rio psychiatric hospital, was awarded the Tokyo Grand Prix on Saturday. Prizes were ...

Brazilian movie Nise The Heart of Madness has won acclaims among Chinese movie-goers since it was released on Jan 5. [Photo provided to China Daily] Brazilian biographical drama Nise: The Heart of ...

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“Music has already been tried in this asylum, where we had four or five artists. […] Music seems to me to be a useful aid in the treatment of insanity. Indeed, it has been used for many years in Italy ...

“Nise — The Heart of Madness,” Brazilian director Roberto Berliner’s biopic about a crusading woman doctor in a Rio psychiatric hospital, was awarded the Tokyo Grand Prix on Saturday. Prizes were ...