This original work contributes to understanding the relations between Brazil and Germany from a transnational historical perspective, focusing on interweaving and circulating knowledge. Recent Posts
The Kraepelinian network: psychiatric knowledge in Brazil and Germany from the late 1800s to the beginning of Second World War
This original work contributes to understanding the relations between Brazil and Germany from a transnational historical perspective, focusing on interweaving and circulating knowledge. The press and hygiene in nineteenth-century Rio de Janeiro
One of the aspects that received the most attention from nineteenth-century journalists was the hygiene and health of the population of Rio de Janeiro. Women and men became the targets of a series of prescriptions in the press that described how the people of the city should care for their body and health, after all, a healthy body was a prerequisite for shaping men and women suitable to contribute to the future of the Empire. The rise of psychoanalysis in US hospitals, 1903-1937
This article explores the work of William Alanson White, who was superintendent of St. Elizabeths, the largest hospital in the United States between 1903 and 1937, and had a significant impact on the practice of the psychoanalytic method in the hospital setting in the country. White considered psychoanalysis important for healing both the individual as well as society.



