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From 1946 in Rio de Janeiro, Nise da Silveira refused to administer lobotomy and electroshock, then standard psychiatry. Sidelined into occupational therapy, she opened painting studios for her patients — and their art astonished the world.

Nise da Silveira, 1946

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The studios opened in September 1946 inside a national psychiatric centre; by 1952 the work had grown into the Museum of Images of the Unconscious, now holding hundreds of thousands of paintings and sculptures. Carl Jung admired the collection and corresponded with her in the 1950s. Some patients dismissed as unreachable produced work of startling power — evidence, she argued, that the task was never to subdue the mind but to give it a language.

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Nise da Silveira, 1946'dan itibaren Rio de Janeiro'da, dönemin standart psikiyatrisi olan lobotomi ve elektroşoku uygulamayı reddetti. Uğraş terapisine sürülünce hastalarına resim atölyeleri açtı — ve hastalarının sanatı dünyayı hayrete düşürdü.
Nise da Silveira, 1946

Atölyeler Eylül 1946'da ulusal bir psikiyatri merkezinde açıldı; 1952'ye gelindiğinde çalışma, bugün yüz binlerce resim ve heykel barındıran Bilinçdışı İmgeler Müzesi'ne dönüşmüştü. Carl Jung koleksiyona hayrandı ve 1950'lerde onunla mektuplaştı. 'Ulaşılamaz' damgası vurulmuş bazı hastalar sarsıcı güçte işler üretti — ona göre bunun kanıtladığı şuydu: Görev zihni bastırmak değil, ona bir dil vermekti.

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