Linos Vossoughi
PhD candidate
Research Interests
I will investigate intrusive images and thoughts with the goal of developing a deeper understanding of how intrusions about the past are related to intrusions about the future. In addition, I hope to help elucidate the processes by which different types of intrusions (e.g., past - vs future- oriented) relate to maladaptive behaviours and psychopathology. Finally, I will assess the utility and feasibility of tracking intrusion related information with clinical routine outcome monitoring, for therapists to make data-informed treatment decisions. I am thrilled to be able to investigate intrusive imagery in psychopathology - a possibly central driving factor of other symptoms - and contribute to the research of symptom-focused approaches. I hope this line of research will bring us closer to a better understanding of psychopathology and optimized treatments.
Background
I received my Bachelor's degree in Psychology from the American College of Greece in 2016 and my Research Master's in Clinical Psychology and Brain and Cognition from the University of Amsterdam in 2018. After a few years teaching at the University of Rotterdam and working in the corporate world I found my way back into what I intended to do since my bachelor's, research in clinical psychology.