Based on the analysis of the medical records of an institution destined for the treatment of the insane and managed by followers of spiritism, this paper has the purpose of presenting the specific notions about health, disease and madness produced by this doctrine and the way in which they were transferred to an institution with the character of an asylum, the Sanatório Espírita de Uberaba, in Brazil, during the first half of the 20th Century.
History of psychiatry; history of spiritism; madness; medical records