The Most Famous
PSYCHOLOGISTS from Brazil
This page contains a list of the greatest Brazilian Psychologists. The pantheon dataset contains 235 Psychologists, 1 of which were born in Brazil. This makes Brazil the birth place of the 32nd most number of Psychologists behind Georgia, and Norway.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Brazilian Psychologists of all time. This list of famous Brazilian Psychologists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Nise da Silveira (1905 - 1999)
With an HPI of 53.03, Nise da Silveira is the most famous Brazilian Psychologist. Her biography has been translated into 31 different languages on wikipedia.
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.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Brazilian psychologists born between 1905 and 1905. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased Brazilian psychologists include Nise da Silveira.
