Nise da Silveira

Biodata

Place of Birth:

Maceió, Alagoas, Brazil

Date of Birth:

2/15/1905

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.