Known For
Acting
Born
Feb 15, 1905
Died
Oct 30, 1999
Place of Birth
Maceió, Alagoas, Brazil
Credits
4 titles
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.
