Chair of Psychology & Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford University; Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Oxford Health NHS Trust; Scientific founder, Oxford VR.
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4 Sep 2025
We have research assistant posts in @OxExpPsy to work on a number of great clinical trials evaluating psychological interventions for psychosis. jobs.ac.uk/job/DON775/resear…
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15 Jul 2025
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/Oxfordshi…
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30 Jun 2025
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
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6 Jun 2025
Testing Feeling Safer — a six-month supported online programme for treating persecutory delusions. Protocol for the trial evaluating outcomes, moderation, mediation, and health economics:
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13 May 2025
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/…
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17 Feb 2025
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/…
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30 Jan 2025
'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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17 Jan 2025
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.… 1/5
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27 Dec 2024
Too late for Xmas... but the paperback of Paranoia is out at the end of January.
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5 Dec 2024
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…
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2 Dec 2024
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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18 Nov 2024
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
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3 Nov 2024
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
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16 Oct 2024
The power of virtual reality…
@EllaRhodesPsych hears from those using the technology: has its early promise been realised?
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@ProfDFreeman @phello @impactvrlab @domnaban @KathrynBFrancis @seaheroquest
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11 Oct 2024
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.
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2 Sep 2024
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
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22 Aug 2024
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/s41598-0…
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8 Aug 2024
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
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25 Jul 2024
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/s41598-0…
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Daniel Freeman retweeted
3 Jul 2024
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 👇
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