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Daniel Freeman

Daniel Freeman is a professor of clinical psychology and a National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) Research Professor in the Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford. He is a fellow of University College, Oxford and also works as an honorary consultant clinical psychologist in Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust. On Twitter he is @ProfDFreeman

January 2024

  • Illustration of the top of a man's head just showing above a tower of bricks encircling him, with white daisies at the base of the tower and a green background

    Are your friends talking about you? The truth about paranoia – and why it’s higher than ever

    As a young psychologist, the delusions of a patient with schizophrenia made me curious about mistrust. Here’s what 30 years of research has taught me – plus a quiz to find out just how paranoid you are

July 2018

  • Man uses VR headset and remote control

    Don't dismiss tech solutions to mental health problems

    Daniel Freeman and Jason Freeman
    There is a desperate shortage of skilled clinicians to treat mental health disorders. Our study shows how virtual reality could fill the gap

March 2017

  • Eugene Cernan during the Apollo 17 moon landing 1972, Swann Galleries to sell set of NASA photos, including first Moon landing images

    Notes & Theories
    Are we entering a golden age of the conspiracy theory?

  • Notes & Theories
    Why virtual reality could be a mental health gamechanger

    Daniel Freeman and Jason Freeman

August 2016

  • Silhouettes of people walking on a street in Manchester

    The autocomplete questions
    Am I just paranoid? You asked Google – here’s the answer

    Daniel Freeman
    Every day millions of internet users ask Google life’s most difficult questions, big and small. Our writers answer some of the commonest queries

May 2016

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    Notes & Theories
    Virtual reality isn't just for gaming - it could transform mental health treatment

    Daniel Freeman and Jason Freeman
    The results of our experiment paint a very striking picture of the power of therapy involving VR in treating patients with persecutory delusions

October 2015

  • Notes & Theories
    Alcohol use disorder: the urgent issue we can't continue to ignore

    Daniel Freeman and Jason Freeman
    The benefits of reducing alcohol consumption hit the headlines this week, but how can we begin to address the deeply-rooted issue of problem drinking?

June 2015

  • Pete Townshend on tour at the o2 in London with the Who Hits 50! in 2015

    Is life's happiness curve really U-shaped?

    Daniel Freeman and Jason Freeman
    Ageing doesn’t mean a steady descent into misery – evidence suggests that happiness is likely to increase as we head towards old age, but is it that simple?

April 2015

  • Prozac, Paxil and Zoloft anti-depressant tablets, close-up

    Notes & Theories
    New study shows mindfulness therapy can be as effective as antidepressants

    A new study examines the use of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy in the treatment of recurrent clinical depression

March 2015

  • Paranoia.

    Feeling paranoid? Your worries are justified but can be helped

    Daniel and Jason Freeman: Paranoid fears are common and have a variety of causes but new research shows specific issue cognitive behaviour therapy can bring significant benefits

January 2015

  • A young depressed man

    Why are men more likely than women to take their own lives?

    Daniel Freeman and Jason Freeman
    Daniel and Jason Freeman: Efforts to prevent suicide, such as those championed, by Nick Clegg must take into account some apparently paradoxical differences between men and women

November 2014

  • A clinician walks down a hospital corridor

    Notes & Theories
    Delusions and hallucinations may be the keys that unlock psychosis

  • child standing alone in a playground

    Notes & Theories
    How to nip antisocial personality disorder in the bud

October 2014

  • A depressed or anxious teenager

    Notes & Theories
    What causes paranoia, hallucinations and grandiose ideas?

    Daniel and Jason Freeman: The widespread symptoms typically associated with schizophrenia are at least as likely to be triggered by people’s environment as their genes, a new study suggests

July 2014

  • A man smoking cannabis

    Cannabis really can trigger paranoia

    Daniel Freeman and Jason Freeman
  • Most mental illnesses go untreated

    Notes & Theories
    The scandal of common mental illnesses left untreated

May 2014

  • Emmelie de Forest of Denmark performs the winning entry of Eurovision 2013

    Notes & Theories
    Mental illness affects us all – even in the happiest country on Earth

    Daniel and Jason Freeman: It's high time we faced up to the fact that mental illness is commonplace and no more shameful than physical illness

April 2014

  • A family member of a passenger on missing flight MH370

    Notes & Theories
    Dispelling the nightmares of post-traumatic stress disorder

    Daniel and Jason Freeman: Treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder can take months, but an intense course may relieve symptoms in just a week

March 2014

  • Depression: Man sitting on the edge of a bed with a woman in the background

    Notes & Theories
    At last, a promising alternative to antipsychotics for schizophrenia

    Daniel and Jason Freeman: For many, the side-effects of antipsychotics are worse than the symptoms they're meant to treat. No wonder some people with schizophrenia refuse to take them

January 2014

  • Notes & Theories
    The height of confidence (and a little paranoia)

    Daniel Freeman and Jason Freeman: How a virtual reality experiment could help to treat people with paranoid symptoms
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