Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
3
Gender
Female
Birthday
1905-02-15
Day of Death
1999-10-30 (94 years old)
Place of Birth
Maceió, Alagoas, Brazil
Also Known As
Nise Magalhães da Silveira
Nise da Silveira
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.
