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Nise: The Heart of Madness
Nise: The Heart of Madness
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NISE: THE HEART OF MADNESS

Nise: O Coração da Loucura

Directed by Roberto Berliner
Brazil, 2015
Biography, Drama, History

Synopsis

After being released from prison, a doctor is back at work at a psychiatric hospital on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, where she refuses to employ electroshock in the treatment of schizophrenics. Ridiculed by others, she is forced to take on the abandoned Sector for Occupational Therapy.

Synopsis

After being released from prison, a doctor is back at work at a psychiatric hospital on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, where she refuses to employ electroshock in the treatment of schizophrenics. Ridiculed by others, she is forced to take on the abandoned Sector for Occupational Therapy.