"Vlado Hlavenka, a psychologist, organised that there would be training in Slovakia for Czechoslovakia, and even socialist abroad . And he brought the Americans here. But unfortunately Carl Rogers died in the meantime, it was by a year that we missed him, I think he was hit by a bus or something like that. So we only saw him on video after that. Vlado organized a sort of a week-long workshop to show us. He invited American colleagues, I mean Rogers' closest associates. That was three Americans, one Greek woman - and they came and we were in the Tatras."
"I was studying and we were having fun. It was a terribly pleasant way of living because we had friends who were of the same political opinion, and that's when we started going to concerts, that's when we met the Gorazds." - "Who were the Gorazds?" - "The Gorazds were, simply Gorazdova is a street and in that street there is a house where the owner rented for students. And there was a bunch of students who stayed friends until now. In fact, that group is still meeting." - "Was there anybody famous one?" - "There wasn't, I think. There was Ďuro Mihálik, who is a sculptor. Unfortunately, it turned out later that he was an agent. Then there's Snopko." - "Ladislav?" - "Yes, Agnes Snopko. Then Miloš Krmíček, he's the cameraman."
"Those were also the times when people were fleeing to the West. So we used to have people knocking on our door at two o'clock at night, at 1:30, at three o'clock at night, saying they needed food or water or if we could give them some kind of ID - like an ID card or whatever. So my mother was worried, so I remember we slept with this huge axe in the bedroom because my father wasn't at home. Then the forester, Rosic was his name, he lent us a dog. So we had a dog after that, so it was kind of safer."
Gabriela Langošová, née Kreháková, was born on 12 October 1950 in Senec, Slovakia, near Bratislava. From the age of five she lived with her parents in Vimperk, Czech Republic, for almost two years. She started primary school in Senec, where she also graduated from the grammar school. In 1969 she entered the Faculty of Arts of Comenius University in Bratislava, where she studied psychology and therapeutic pedagogy. At that time she met her future husband Ján Langoš. From 1975 she worked as a psychotherapist at the Children‘s University Hospital in Bratislava. In 1980 she joined the Pedagogical and Psychological Counselling Centre in Bratislava as a psychotherapist, where she stayed until 1990. In 1981-1986 she participated in the Training in Dynamic Group Psychotherapy and in 1988-1992 she completed the Training in Person-oriented Psychotherapy. In 1990-1992 she worked as a counsellor in the Human Rights Section of the Office of the President of the Republic. Since 1992, she has been in private psychotherapy practice, a lecturer in group psychotherapy training, a supervisor and a teaching supervisor of EAS. In 2025, she lived in Prague and was still working in her field.
