Nevenka Tadić was born Nevenka Kićanović (Невенка Кићановић). Her mother Milica (née Konjević) came from Drenovac Radučki village in Lika to Brodac village near Bijeljina at the age of 16, got married there, and gave birth to a son and two daughters.
She is the mother of Boris Tadić, the former president of Serbia and current leader of the Social Democratic Party. He was killed in 1942 by the Ustaše in Jadovno concentration camp, during the World World War II genocide. After the war, Tadić got her medical degree from the University of Belgrade (Belgrade Medical School).
She specialized neuropsychiatry in Sarajevo, where she has worked from 1954 to 1962.
In 1957, she went to Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital in Paris for further education. There, she worked alongside some of the most notable French psychoanalysts such as Serge Lebovici, René Diatkine 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 Special education and Rehabilitation). She is an author of numerous books and articles, mainly related to the psychoanalysis of children.
She has also translated the book Louisiana Psychanalyse de l"enfant by Victor Smirnoff from French in 1970.
Nevenka"s father, Strahinja Kićanović, was a wealthy merchant and landowner, and as a leader of the Agrarian Party in Semberija before the World World War II, he was twice a candidate to become a member of the Parliament of Yugoslavia.
