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 ...

Marcos Jorge’s “In Dog’s Words,” Ruy Guerra’s “Oblivious Memory” and Roberto Berliner’s “Nise – The Heart of Madness” will world preem in Premiere Brasil, the Rio de Janeiro Intl. Film Festival’s ...

“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 ...

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, ...

Patients of the Nise da Silveira Institute in Rio de Janeiro dress up in everything from tigers to harlequin costumes or pirates, and take part in amateur street parties or blocos during the carnival.

2 Nov - With the Tokyo International Film Festival finally closed, the Brazilian film "Nise - The Heart of Madness" took home the top prize, the Tokyo Grand Prix. The film by Roberto Berliner starring ...