[Ottillie Hammes: a nursing pioneer in Santa Catarina, Brazil].

This is a socio-historic study that aimed at revealing Ottillie Hammes' professional trajectory, to present some of her biography traces and analyze her contribution for nursing profession in Santa Catarina, Brazil. During the data collection, interviews were made and documentary sources were utilized. Data was categorized according to content analysis and and also according Foucault's approach.

[Leprosy: stigma and prejudice lived by institucionalized patients in Santa Catarina State, Brazil (1940-1960)].

This study is a qualitative research with a socio-historic approach whose objective was to know the prejudice and stigma lived by the institutionalized patients/residents with hanseniase. To achieve this goal, three patients were intervewed who lived in a colony hospital during the research period, utilizing the oral history method. Data were collected and were further analysed, utilizing the stigma referencial.

[Therapies used in Hospital Colônia Sant'Ana: the cradle of psychiatry in Santa Catarina State, Brazil (1941-1960)].

This article is a qualitative research with socio-historical approach which aimed at describing the history of the treatment given to psychiatric patients hospitalized in the old Hospital named Colônia Sant'Ana, in the period between 1941 and 1960. The data collection was carried out through semi-structured interviews with five employees that worked at the Hospital in the period, using the Verbal Method of History. After the analysis of the interviews using the content analysis of Bardin, it was achieved the following results - the psychiatric patients hospitalized were submitted to some therapies such as: electric discharge, insulin therapy, specifics drugs, occupational therapy and family care.

[The nurse as a healer of the mental patient: report of an experience].

The present paper reports the experience of a nurse who starts a process for recuperating the social benefits of a group of intern patients in the Psychiatry Institute of Santa Catarina in São José (SC). Many of the social benefits were taken away from these patients without their approval, and were spent, most of the time, by their legal curators.