Nise da Silveira

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Born on February 15, 1905 (120 years old)

Passed Away on October 30, 1999

From Maceió, Alagoas, Brazil

Known for Acting

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.