Nevenka Tadić (; sr-cyr, Невенка Тадић, ; born 1926 in

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, ,

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) is a

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most noted for her work in the

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of children. She is the mother of

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, the former

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and current leader of the

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Early life

Nevenka's mother Milica () came from the village of Drenovac Radučki in

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to the village of BrodacOne or other of the neighbouring villages

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and

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. near

at the age of 16, got married there, and gave birth to a son and two daughters. Nevenka's father, Strahinja Kićanović, was a wealthy

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and landowner, and as a leader of the Agrarian Party in

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before the

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, he was twice a candidate to become a member of the

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. He was killed in 1942 by the Ustashas in the

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, during the World War II genocide.

Professional career

After the war, Tadić got her medical degree from the

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( Belgrade Medical School). She specialized

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, where she has worked from 1954 to 1962. In 1957, she went to

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for further education. There, she worked alongside some of the most notable French psychoanalysts such as

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, and Georges Heuyer. Afterwards, she has worked in Belgrade in the Mental Health Institute and, as a professor, on the Faculty of Defectology (today renamed to Faculty of

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and

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). She is an author of numerous books and articles, mainly related to the

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of children. She has also translated the book ''La Psychanalyse de l'enfant'' by from French in 1970.

Personal life

Nevenka was married to Serbian

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Ljubomir Tadić (1925–2013), whom she met while studying at the

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and with whom she has two children – daughter Vjera (married Radović, born 1952) and son Boris (born 1958), both of whom went on to become psychologists. Boris has been the

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and the leader of the

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from 2004 to 2012. In February 2014, Boris Tadić left the Democratic Party to become the president of the

. Nevenka Tadić currently lives in

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References

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