| 1960 – born in Telsiai, Lithuania; my father was a doctor and my mother ran a book shop.
1978 – graduated from gymnasium.
1978 – 1986 – studies at the Kaunas Medical Institute and Vilnius University Medical school, obtaining a medical doctor degree with a specialization in neurology and psychiatry.
1984 – married Daiva, who was also a medical student. In 1985 our daughter Agnes was born.
1986 – 1992 – practicing neurology and psychotherapy at the Vilnius Outpatient Clinic for Students and Adolescents.
Since 1990 – cooperation with the emerging Lithuanian Family Center at the Bishops Conference.
1992 – 1995 – studies at the John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family in Washington, D.C., (7 semesters), obtaining a Master of Theological Studies degree.
1995 – internship at the Georgetown Family Center in family psychiatry.
1996 – 1999 – in Lithuania, practicing psychotherapy at the Vilnius Archdiocese Family Center, director of the center for one year (marriage preparation programs, chastity education etc.), teaching at the Vilnius St. Joseph Seminary.
1999 – 2003 studies at the International Theological Institute for Studies on Marriage and the Family in Gaming, Austria, graduating with a Licentiate in Sacred Theology with the specialization in Marriage and Family. Thesis topic: On the Relation between Contraception and the Hardness of Heart.
2000 – 2008 – Assistant Professor of Psychology and Pastoral Theology at the ITI. Courses taught: Psychology of the Couple, Marital Chastity and Communication, Premarital Chastity and Friendship, Introduction to Bioethics, Homosexuality and Gender Issues, Child Development and Personality Formation, Psychiatry and Christianity.
2005 – 2008 – in spring semester, part time teaching at the Vilnius St. Joseph seminary, involved in renewing marriage preparation programs in Lithuania, also with chastity education programs. A member of the Family Council at the Lithuanian Bishop’s Conference.
My wife is a cardiologist, and daughter is studying journalism at Vilnius University.
Publications
For Men of Our Time (on contraception, love and lust in conjugal life). The Linacre Quarterly, A Journal of the Philosophy and Ethics of Medical Practice of the Cat, holic Physician’s Guilds of the US, November, 1994.
The Psychology of Continence , The Linacre Quarterly, November, 1995.
Sex und Sieben, Information und Orientierung zu Pubertät, Liebe und Sexualität.Mit Thomas Schenk und Jutta Lang. Bundesministerium für Soziale Sicherheit, Generationen und Konsumentenschutz, Österreich, 2006.
On the Relationship Between Contraception and the Hardness of Heart; (based on the Licentiate thesis). Communio, International Catholic Review, Winter, 2005.
In Lithuanian:
more than 20 articles in Catholic and secular press on sexuality and ethics, also psychology of family life.
The longing of the happy savage state as the philosophical foundation of the corruption of the young. Soter, Journal of Religious Science, Faculty of Theology at Vytautas Magnus University, 21 (49).
The role of sexual abstinence in the process of psychological maturation. Health Sciences, 17, 2007.
A book: Lengvas gyvenimas (“Easy life”); Catholic Reflection on the Psychology of Marriage. Kataliku Pasaulis, Vilnius, 2007; in process of translation into English.
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