Virgínia Leone Bicudo: Pioneira da Psicologia e da Psicanálise no Brasil

This article aims to compose a biographical sketch that delineates Virginia Bicudo´s career, highlighting her contributions as a psychology and psychoanalysis´ pioneer in the country. That way, it was performed a qualitative study of historical nature which employed oral sources and documentary sources, The results show that the performance of Virginia Bicudo has two distinct phases. The first, was developed in the 1940s and 1950s, is focused on the approach of psychoanalysis and mental health, through preventive actions with children who had problems in school or through the dissemination of information related to early childhood education in the media. The second, which covers 1960 to 1980 decades, is characterized by the diffusion of the psychoanalytic movement in the country.