ParqueMunicipalUrbanoNisedaSilveira

And their intertwined stories.

The park was opened in March 2022, around Bosque Dona Ivone Lara, named after a singer.

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Nise da Silveira

Nise da Silveira was born in Maceió in 1905. She was the only daughter of a teacher and journalist and a pianist, which gave her a childhood full of freedom, music, art, and education.

She studied the areas of neurology and psychiatry, and began working as a psychiatrist. During Getúlio Vargas's government, there was a lot of persecution of PCB members and of intellectuals, writers, and artists. Nise was arrested twice during that period. She had to flee and lived in Bahia for eight years as a fugitive.

Some time later, Nise managed to return to work at the Pedro Segundo psychiatric hospital, where she dealt with the “medicine” of the time. She began to disagree with the way things were done and started looking for new methods of treatment. Nise revolutionized psychiatry, exposing new therapy methods that included artistic expression.

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"Excellent catalysts are non-human co-therapists" — Nise also recognized the importance of animals in the healing of some patients.

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Suburban Madness

The carnival street group Loucura Suburbana emerges, then, as a means of bringing people together in the fight against psychological prejudice.

Created in 2001, as part of the deconstruction process of the asylum model at the Nise da Silveira Municipal Institute, the Bloco Carnavalesco Loucura Suburbana breaks down the walls of the asylum and revives the street carnival of Engenho de Dentro.

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Os loucos são considerados comumente seres embrutecidos e absurdos. Custará admitir que indivíduos assim rotulados em hospícios sejam capazes de realizar alguma coisa comparável às criações de legítimos artistas - que se afirmem justo no domínio da arte, a mais alta atividade humana.

Bibliographic References

Museum of Images of the Unconscious - Nise da Silveira Occupation Museum. https://www.loucurasuburbana.org/