Nise da Silveira

Known for

Acting

Born

February 15, 1905

Died

October 30, 1999

Birthplace

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.