This article tries to show how the consequences of refusing an interpretation can be very different within Freudian, Jungian, and other psychotherapeutic models.

El surgimiento de las terapias biológicas de shock en Psiquiatría durante la década de 1930 ofreció, por primera vez, instrumentos terapéuticos “reales” para la disciplina. Este artículo analiza la implementación de tales tratamientos en el Instituto de Psiquiatría de Rosario, Argentina.

Medical doctors from several schools started to use the term “psychotherapies” to define therapies that sought moral treatment, cure of automatism, persuading or producing catharsis, affecting body, mind and unconscious.

In the 1918-19 influenza pandemic, Brazil faced twin problems: infection and hunger. More than a century later, Covid-19 again brought forth these interconnected problems.

She was the first woman to lead Fiocruz.

“Many hands, hearts, and minds worked together during those challenging early days, and new professors contributed to this collective construction,” says Nísia Trindade Lima, President of Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, in the guest editor’s letter.