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
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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.