Virgínia Leone Bicudo

Biography

Virgínia Leone Bicudo (November 21, 1910 – 2003) was a Brazilian sociologist and psychoanalyst, the first non-physician to be recognized as a psychoanalyst, becoming essential for the consolidation and institutionalization of psychoanalysis in Brazil. In the field of sociology, she pioneered the study of race relations as the theme of her master's thesis in 1945.

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