Daniel Freeman
@ProfDFreeman
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Chair of Psychology & Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford University; Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Oxford Health NHS Trust; Scientific founder, Oxford VR.
University of Oxford
Joined June 2013
We have research assistant posts in @OxExpPsy to work on a number of great clinical trials evaluating psychological interventions for psychosis.
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An exciting new clinical psychologist position in Oxford to provide our new Feeling Safer guided online programme for the treatment of persecutory delusions (starting October).
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Delighted that first clinical testing results of Feeling Safer are now published. Our new six-month supported online programme for persecutory delusions maintained the large effects of the face-to-face therapy. @OxExpPsy @OxPsychiatry @OxHealthBRC
https://t.co/EYUqFpMUnY
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A 6-month supported online program for the treatment of persecutory delusions: Feeling Safer - Volume 55
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Testing Feeling Safer — a six-month supported online programme for treating persecutory delusions. Protocol for the trial evaluating outcomes, moderation, mediation, and health economics: https://t.co/WqiQxIEPkS
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Introduction Persecutory delusions are very common in severe mental health disorders such as schizophrenia. Existing treatments often do not work well enough. We developed a face-to-face theory-dri...
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A new theoretical model of persecutory delusions (severe paranoia) that explicitly shows what needs to happen in treatment. Includes how to introduce counterweights to the thoughts and behaviours that cause paranoia. @OxExpPsy @OxPsychiatry @CambUP_Psych
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A counterweight model for understanding and treating persecutory delusions - Volume 55
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A summation of our thinking about sleep and circadian difficulties and psychosis. Hopefully clinically valuable and an aid for theoretical understanding too. @FelicityWaite @CambUP_Psych @OxExpPsy
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Sleep and circadian difficulties in schizophrenia: presentations, understanding, and treatment - Volume 55
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'Fascinating... shocking' @Spectator
@ProfDFreeman, Professor of Psychology at Oxford, has spent thirty years at the vanguard of paranoia research and treatment. This remarkable and moving book tells the story of that journey. 🧠 PARANOIA is out today in paperback!
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New open access paper: Paranoia and USEs in Parkinson's disease. We aimed to explore if our psychological models of psychosis could inform our understanding psychotic experiences in PD https://t.co/0JaZ7fAhXg 1/5
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There has been limited exploration into the nature and development of psychotic experiences (PEs) in Parkinson’s disease (PD). We aimed to comprehensively assess the frequency, severity, and associ...
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Too late for Xmas... but the paperback of Paranoia is out at the end of January.
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Hopefully this will prove a v valuable resourse: potential priorities for research on paranoia. lots of great questions. Excellent work by @DavidArielSher and the team including @ThomasKabir @OxPsychiatry
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Background A persecutory delusion (severe paranoia) occurs when a person believes that others are trying to harm them when they are not. It is often a central difficulty for patients diagnosed with...
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Happy to share that I successfully defended my @OxPsychiatry DPhil thesis "Facial Expressions on Virtual Humans: Optimising Virtual Reality Applications for Mental Health" supervised by @AitorInVR @ProfDFreeman, assessed by @MariekeAG @panxueni at @magdalenoxford 🦌. A thread 👇
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This is an important one for understanding how delusions may, or may not, improve with psychological therapy. Marvellous analysis of Feeling Safe individual trajectories from Lucy Jenner, Mollie Payne, @richardaemsley and team. @OxPsychiatry @KingsIoPPN
https://t.co/20JiG1Q0Yt
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Theory driven psychological therapy for persecutory delusions: trajectories of patient outcomes - Volume 54 Issue 15
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Part-time peer intervention delivery role with our team helping provide a new six-month guided online programme for the treatment of paranoia: Feeling Safer. We are very excited about the potential of Feeling Safer. @OxfordHealthNHS @OxHealthBRC
https://t.co/Nyyc1acIUB
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The power of virtual reality… @EllaRhodesPsych hears from those using the technology: has its early promise been realised? https://t.co/1jxwVO52y1
@ProfDFreeman @phello @impactvrlab @domnaban @KathrynBFrancis @seaheroquest
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Ella Rhodes hears from those using the technology: has its early promise been realised?
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We are recruiting to a fantastic new Associate Professorship in Clinical Psychology position at Oxford @OxExpPsy @oxicpt @ReubenCollege. Looking for a leader/future leader in rigorous clinical psychology research that has a clear trajectory to impact. https://t.co/GHKdLKpiAb
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New clinical psychologist position in the Oxford Cognitive Approaches to Psychosis (O-CAP) research group. Focus on evaluating new psychological treatments that have potential to lead to large change for patients. @OxPsychiatry @OxExpPsy
https://t.co/n8XQSoReCW
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New early stage experimental work from our team on the use of VR for smoking cessation. @AitorInVR our VR computer scientist lead. @OxPsychiatry @OxExpPsy @OxHealthBRC
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A paper describing how we developed Phoenix VR self-confidence automated therapy. The initial cohort trial indicated potentially large benefits for psychological wellbeing. @OxPsychiatry @OxHealthBRC
https://t.co/vV87fm5Z0f
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Virtual Reality (VR) is an immersive technology in which delivery of psychological therapy techniques can be automated. Techniques can be implemented similarly to real-world delivery or in ways that...
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How VR characters are programmed matters for mental health applications. A randomised controlled test for paranoia. marvellous work by @nameIsShuYeah @OxPsychiatry @OxHealthBRC
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In the latest edition of ‘Behind the Research’, Professor Anke Ehlers tells us about her work developing effective, specialised digitally enabled therapies for social anxiety disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder 👇 https://t.co/CAcOMdwxRL
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This month's guest expert is Anke Ehlers, Professor of Experimental Psychopathology at the University of Oxford. Around 93,000 people received England’s NHS Talking Therapies for depression, anxiety...
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