Nise da Silveira: a psiquiatra entre “loucos”, artistas e comunistas

Abstract

The present work is a historiographical study about Nise Silveira, born in Alagoas, given its personal, academic, political and literary trajectory. With a brief biography of her, and a reflection on the social role of women in this time cutout, in the third decade of the nineteenth century, and also the innovative practices used with regard to the treatment of psychiatric patients with Occupational Therapy. The text dialogues with the Communist Party, and the intellectuals, both from politics and from literature, bringing names, such as: Manuel Bandeira, Graciliano Ramos, Olga Benário Prestes, Octavio Brandão and Laura Brandão, the latter being given a greater focus, due to the proximity of friendship, that existed with the doctor. It brings a humanistic perception that the psychiatrist exercised at the Hospital, influenced by the doctor Carl Jung, who founded analytical psychology.