Paranoia: My Life Understanding and Treating Extreme Mistrust
Daniel Freeman will describe his journey advancing the understanding and treatment of severe paranoia. This will include: developing the Feeling Safe programme, the most effective psychological therapy for persecutory delusions; using virtual reality to assess, understand, and treat psychosis; and identifying the ubiquity of excessive mistrust in the general population, along with study of conspiracy beliefs and vaccine hesitancy.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Daniel Freeman holds the Chair of Psychology at the University of Oxford and is a Professorial Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford. Daniel is a consultant clinical psychologist in Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust and a National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Senior Investigator. A Fellow of the British Academy, he presented the BBC Radio 4 series A History of Delusions.

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Meeting ID: 898 6365 5838
Passcode: 533470
Date: 19 February 2024, 15:30 (Monday, 6th week, Hilary 2024)
Venue: New Radcliffe House, Walton Street OX2 6NW
Venue Details: Seminar room, 2nd floor
Speaker: Professor Daniel Freeman (University of Oxford)
Organising department: Department of Experimental Psychology
Organiser contact email address: hod.office@psy.ox.ac.uk
Host: Professor Matthew Rushworth (University of Oxford)
Part of: Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)
Booking required?: Not required
Audience: Members of the University only
Editor: Anne-Marie Honeyman-Tafa