Nevenka Kićanović was born in Bijeljina, Oblast of Tuzla [sr], Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes in 1926.
Nevenka's father, Strahinja Kićanović, was a wealthy merchant and landowner, and as a leader of the Agrarian Party in Semberija before the World War II, he was twice a candidate to become a member of the Parliament of Yugoslavia.
[4] He was killed in 1942 by the Ustashas in the Jadovno concentration camp, during the World War II genocide of Serbs in the Independent State of Croatia.
[1] There, she worked alongside some of the most notable French psychoanalysts such as Serge Lebovici, René Diatkine and Georges Heuyer.
[2] She has also translated the book La Psychanalyse de l'enfant by Victor Smirnoff [fr] from French in 1970.