paranoia – A New Vision for Mental Health

Persecutory delusions, engine idling and taxi driver brains

Author: Editorial 10th December 2021 0 Comments

This episode of All in the Mind (BBC Radio 4) includes presenter Claudia Hammond talking to Prof. Daniel Freeman (clinical psychologist at the University of Oxford) about a trial into a new talking treatment – the Feeling Safe programme – for…
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A History of Delusions

Author: Editorial 27th September 2021 0 Comments

This excellent podcast (57 minutes) from the BBC explores many different aspects of delusions, including some of their causes, and some ways of best helping those who experience them. Presented by clinical psychologist Prof. Daniel Freeman, the podcast’s coverage also includes:…
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How A New Therapy Helps People with Delusions Feel Safe Again

Author: Editorial 9th August 2021 1 Comment

“”I don’t have to worry any more about people potentially attacking me. That’s all floated away.”” This article has been written by Shayla Love and published in Vice magazine. It begins: “Six months into experiencing psychosis, Susan Weiner woke up…
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The Social Context of Paranoia

Author: Editorial 3rd July 2019 0 Comments

In De-Medicalising Misery: Psychiatry, Psychology and the Human Condition , Chapter 5 – The Social Context of Paranoia – is written by clinical psychologist David Harper. It begins: “’Psychiatry’, suggests Hornstein … ‘is the most contested field in medicine’ and, as Bracken and Thomas … note, ‘it is…
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The effects of improving sleep on mental health

Author: Editorial 7th January 2019 0 Comments

The full title of this paper – published Sept. 2017 in The Lancet Psychiatry – is “The effects of improving sleep on mental health (OASIS): a randomised controlled trial with mediation analysis”. “Background Sleep difficulties might be a contributory causal factor in the…
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Why did I go mad?

Author: admin 15th May 2017 0 Comments

This excellent Horizon programme (BBC2) follows people living with voices, hallucinations and paranoia to explore the causes. For hundreds of years, psychiatry has treated voices and hallucinations as an enemy – regarding them as ‘insanity’ or ‘madness’ and seeing…
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