Research interests

• History of Psychiatry and Psychology;
• History of doctor-patient relationship;
• Historical evolution of mental illness perception and conceptualization;
• Conceptual, ideological, historical and ethical boundary-crossings occurring between medical discourse and the socio-political milieu;
• Interconnections to be drawn between Science and Literature and their application to Historical Analysis;

Projects

• “Visions of Psychiatry, Madness and the Republic in the Work of Dr Luís Cebola (1876-1967): An Historical Approach at the Crossroads of Psychiatry, Ideology and Fiction in Portugal in the First Half of the Twentieth Century”, PhD project in History, Philosophy and Heritage of Science and Technology (Faculty of Sciences and Technology, New University of Lisbon) Supervision: Christopher Damien Auretta, António Manuel Nunes dos Santos and John Forrester (University of Cambridge, Department of History and Philosophy of Science)(FCT/MCTES, SFRH/BD/69452/2010), 2010-2014.
  From January to June 2012 and in January and November 2013 will be a Visiting Student at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge under the supervision of Professor John Forrester.

Publications

1. Denise Pereira, "Cebola, José Luís Rodrigues", Biografias de Cientistas e Engenheiros, CIUHCT, 2011.
2. Denise Pereira, "The Dialogue between Psychiatry, Positivist Beliefs and Republican Ideals in the Political Writings and Medical Work of Dr. Luis Cebola (1876 -1967)," in Scientist Writers: Science, Fiction and the Rewriting of History between the Republic and the Dictatorship in Twentieth-Century Portugal, Christopher Damien Auretta, António Manuel Nunes dos Santos, Denise Pereira, Daniel Marques, Heitor Matos (orgs). Pending.