Birthday
1905-02-15
Deathday
1999-10-30
Place of Birth
Maceió, Alagoas, Brazil

Nise da Silveira

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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.

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