Introducing PhD candidate Eline de Vries

Eline completed her bachelor and research master's in Psychology at the University of Amsterdam, specialising in clinical psychology and psychological methods. She also completed a clinical internship in specialised mental healthcare, working as a psychologist-in-training. Inspired by her experiences with clinical care and interest in mechanistic psychological research, she used Perceived Causal Networks to capture how mental health practitioners conceptualise the causal relationships between symptoms of Major Depressive Disorder in her master thesis.

This left her fascinated by how symptoms can play an idiosyncratic and dynamic role within a patient, and how symptoms 'behave' across diagnostic boundaries. During her PhD within the NSMD consortium and Amsterdam Emotional Memory lab, Eline will investigate intrusive memories as a potential transdiagnostic driver of dysfunctional thoughts, urges and behaviours. Her supervisory team consists of Renée Visser, Merel Kindt, Anita Jansen, Anne Roefs, and Lourens Waldorp.