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Kristen Syme

Postdoc, Evolutionary Anthropology, VU Amsterdam

Kristen Syme has a PhD in evolutionary anthropology from Washington State University, and is a postdoc at VU Amsterdam in the Netherlands. She lives in Vancouver.

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Written by Kristen Syme

Difficult emotions

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Most anguish isn’t an illness but an evolved response to adversity

An anthropological view shows us that the root causes of depression and anxiety are usually social conflict and adversity

by Kristen Syme & Edward H Hagen