11 Quotes & Sayings By Vinko Vrbanic

Vinko Vrbanic was born in 1953 in Zagreb, Croatia. In 1976 he graduated from the University of Zagreb Faculty of Medicine and went on to complete his specialty training at the Department of Psychiatry in Zagreb, where he worked until 1991. He has been a psychiatrist for over twenty years and is board certified in both psychiatry and psychotherapy. Dr Read more

Vrbanic is a professor of psychiatry at the University of Primorska in Nova Gorica, Slovenia, where he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in psychiatry and psychotherapy. In addition, he is an associate professor at the Department of Psychiatry at the University Clinic for Psychiatry in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Dr.

Vrbanic has been a visiting lecturer at Harvard Medical School and at many other universities around the world. He has also been a faculty member at the International Summer School for Psychiatry in Split, Croatia, and has lectured extensively in Europe and North America. He has published numerous papers and chapters in psychiatry and psychotherapy journals.

Dr. Vrbanic's research interests include: neuroimaging studies of mood disorders; family therapy with patients with mood disorders; cognitive behavior therapy, especially in combination with medication; placebo response; behavioral activation; perception-based therapy; psychosomatic medicine; school violence prevention; panic attacks; obsessive compulsive disorder; posttraumatic stress disorder; social anxiety disorder; borderline personality disorder; depression treatment using cognitive behavior therapy or cognitive behavioral group therapy.

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The sieges of Gvozdansko (1578) and Alamo (1836) tell the true stories of the small bands of the heroes who stood against the massive armies to defend their homelands. They echo innate human devotion to the idea of fighting for freedom. Vinko Vrbanic
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Women should not feel obliged towards any men for eternity. They earned this privilege by gathering berries, digging roots, picking wild rice, and chewing the skin to make it soft for 999 thousand years, while the men were having fun in the open chasing deer and fighting among themselves. Vinko Vrbanic
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Nothing can be located in space and time w/out changing angles. Perceive Him as God, or Spirit, or Son, these are mere snapshots from three different angles of one and the same being. Unless the Christians learn how to put them together, they would learn nothing concerning the essence of the Eternal. Vinko Vrbanic
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A good storyteller minces words to entertain or inspire the audience. The politicians and religious leaders do much the same, but for a different purpose - to turn otherwise normal people to nutcases. Vinko Vrbanic
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Without compassion for a fellow man, for great splendors of our Sister, Mother Earth the humankind will never reconcile with itself. Vinko Vrbanic
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If a story is w/out flaws or doubts, it is flattery or even brainwashing. You should read it as if drinking a glass of water. But be prepared - you would not remember its taste. Vinko Vrbanic
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Mara Margetić from Slavonski Kobaš stands next to Marija Bursać from Kamenica, or even to Judith the daughter of Merari from Bethulia. What a moving example of love, perseverance and loyalty! Vinko Vrbanic
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Love is a vision, a firefly that majestically glows in the night for some time; then, it winks at you and swiftly disappears. Vinko Vrbanic
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Alamo has been a strong inspiration for nations striving for freedom all around the globe since 1836. Gvozdansko has not earned public reputation, but profoundly touched the heart of the bitter enemy Ferhat-paša alone in 1578. Croats have a duty and obligation to learn about Gvozdansko. Vinko Vrbanic
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Facing problems is like looking at a sink piled up with dirty dishes. More you think more they stink. It takes only to roll up the sleeves and start washing them, one by one. In just ten minutes they are done. Vinko Vrbanic