Nise da Silveira
Known for
Acting
Born
February 15, 1905
Birthplace
Maceió, Alagoas, Brazil
Died
October 30, 1999 (aged 94)
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.
Best known work
Images of the Unconscious
1987
Let Me Tell You
2007
Afterword: Images of the Unconscious
2014Farra do Boi
1991Filmography
2014
Afterword: Images of the Unconsciousas Herself
2007
1991
1987