Daniel Freeman is a British psychologist and
paranoia
Paranoia is an instinct or thought process that is believed to be heavily influenced by anxiety or fear, often to the point of delusion and irrationality. Paranoid thinking typically includes persecutory beliefs, or beliefs of conspiracy concer ...
expert at the
Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience
The Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN) is a research institution dedicated to discovering what causes mental illness and diseases of the brain. In addition, its aim is to help identify new treatments for them and way ...
at
King's College London
King's College London (informally King's or KCL) is a public research university located in London, England. King's was established by royal charter in 1829 under the patronage of King George IV and the Duke of Wellington. In 1836, King's ...
and professor of
clinical psychology
Clinical psychology is an integration of social science, theory, and clinical knowledge for the purpose of understanding, preventing, and relieving psychologically based distress or dysfunction and to promote subjective well-being and persona ...
and
National Institute for Health Research
The National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) is the British government’s major funder of clinical, public health, social care and translational research. With a budget of over £1.2 billion in 2020–21, its mission is to "impr ...
research professor in the Department of Psychiatry at
University of Oxford
, mottoeng = The Lord is my light
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, endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019)
, budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20)
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.
[ His research indicates that paranoia affects a much wider population, not just those who have ]schizophrenia
Schizophrenia is a mental disorder characterized by continuous or relapsing episodes of psychosis. Major symptoms include hallucinations (typically hearing voices), delusions, and disorganized thinking. Other symptoms include social withdra ...
, as previously thought. One of his studies has also suggested that virtual reality
Virtual reality (VR) is a simulated experience that employs pose tracking and 3D near-eye displays to give the user an immersive feel of a virtual world. Applications of virtual reality include entertainment (particularly video games), educ ...
can help treat paranoia. He has written several books on paranoia and anxiety disorder
Anxiety disorders are a cluster of mental disorders characterized by significant and uncontrollable feelings of anxiety and fear such that a person's social, occupational, and personal function are significantly impaired. Anxiety may cause physi ...
s.
In 2008, Freeman received the May Davidson Award from the British Psychological Society
The British Psychological Society (BPS) is a representative body for psychologists and psychology in the United Kingdom.
History
It was founded on 24 October 1901 at University College London (UCL) as ''The Psychological Society'', the organ ...
's Division of Clinical Psychology. On 22 July 2022, he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy
Fellowship of the British Academy (FBA) is an award granted by the British Academy to leading academics for their distinction in the humanities and social sciences. The categories are:
# Fellows – scholars resident in the United Kingdom
# C ...
(FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.
In December 2018 Freeman presented the BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 4 is a British national radio station owned and operated by the BBC that replaced the BBC Home Service in 1967. It broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes, including news, drama, comedy, science and history from the BBC' ...
series ''A History of Delusions.''
References
External links
Daniel Freeman
on the website of the Oxford Department of Psychiatry
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
English psychologists
NIHR Research Professors
NIHR Senior Investigators
Academics of King's College London
Fellows of the British Psychological Society
Fellows of University College, Oxford
Fellows of the British Academy