Nise da Silveira

Born

1905-02-15

Died

1999-10-30

Birthplace

Maceió, Alagoas, Brazil

Biography

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.