Nise da Silveira

Nise da Silveira
Nise da Silveira, in 1970
Born	(1905-02-15)February 15, 1905 Maceió, Alagoas, Brazil
Died	October 30, 1999(1999-10-30) (aged 94) Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Alma mater	Universidade Federal da Bahia
Spouse	Mário Magalhães da Silveira
Scientific career
Fields	Psychiatry

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 challenged the conventional orthodoxies of her era, which insisted on using institutionalization and aggressive forms of medical intervention, including electroconvulsive therapy, insulin shock therapy and lobotomy to treat mental illnesses.^{[citation needed]}