Daniel Freeman
@ProfDFreeman
Chair of Psychology & Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford University; Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Oxford Health NHS Trust; Scientific founder, Oxford VR.
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 oxfordhealth.nhs.uk/careers/vacanc…
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 games.jmir.org/2024/1/e51512
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 👇 linkedin.com/pulse/how-digi…
🧵Involvement opportunity! Join us to support two exciting large @wellcometrust funded studies called Sleeping Better and FOCUS: tinyurl.com/4vmwv4tv. More details 👇 @OxPsychiatry @OxExpPsy @ProfDFreeman @FelicityWaite @BLennox4 @rob_mccutcheon Pls RT!
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). nhsjobs.com/job/UK/Oxfords…
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 cambridge.org/core/journals/…
Testing Feeling Safer — a six-month supported online programme for treating persecutory delusions. Protocol for the trial evaluating outcomes, moderation, mediation, and health economics: bmjopen.bmj.com/content/15/6/e…
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 cambridge.org/core/journals/…
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 cambridge.org/core/journals/…
'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!
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 tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… 1/5
Too late for Xmas... but the paperback of Paranoia is out at the end of January.

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 mentalhealth.bmj.com/content/27/1/e…
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 👇
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 cambridge.org/core/journals/…
The power of virtual reality… @EllaRhodesPsych hears from those using the technology: has its early promise been realised? bps.org.uk/psychologist/p… @ProfDFreeman @phello @impactvrlab @domnaban @KathrynBFrancis @seaheroquest
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. my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecruit…
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 jobs.ac.uk/job/DJL969/cli…
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 nature.com/articles/s4159…
How VR characters are programmed matters for mental health applications. A randomised controlled test for paranoia. marvellous work by @nameIsShuYeah @OxPsychiatry @OxHealthBRC nature.com/articles/s4159…