Nise da Silveira
Born
February 15, 1905
Died
October 30, 1999 (94 years old)
Known For
Acting
Place of Birth
Maceió, Alagoas, Brazil
Nise da Silveira (February 15, 1905 – October 30, 1999) was a Brazilian psychiatrist and a student of Carl Jung. She devoted her life to psychiatry and has never been in agreement with the aggressive forms of treatment of her time such as commitment to psychiatric hospitals, electroshock, insulin therapy and lobotomy.
