Nise da Silveira

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Nise da Silveira

A.K.A:

Nise Magalhães da Silveira -

1905-02-15 -1999-10-30

Female

Maceió, Alagoas, Brazil

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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.