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September 2024. Will be running a four-day intensive workshop in Half Moon Bay, California for clinicians to train in Feeling Safe. Feeling Safe is the most effective psychological therapy for persecutory delusions. Hosted by Kate Hardy at Stanford Medicine med.stanford.edu/inspire-traini…

We are currently testing our new guided six-month online programme for the treatment of persecutory delusions: Feeling Safer. A full RCT will start later this year. There is a really great clinical psychologist position available in Manchester Greater Manchester Mental Health nhsjobs.com/job/UK/Manches…

A great piece in Nature Medicine on a number of potential uses of VR in mental health care Oxford Psychiatry Oxford ExpPsychology nature.com/immersive/d415…

🧵Involvement opportunity! Join us to support two exciting large Wellcome funded studies called Sleeping Better and FOCUS: tinyurl.com/4vmwv4tv. More details 👇 Oxford Psychiatry Oxford ExpPsychology Daniel Freeman Felicity Waite Belinda Lennox Rob_McCutcheon Pls RT!

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…

How VR characters are programmed matters for mental health applications. A randomised controlled test for paranoia. marvellous work by Shu Oxford Psychiatry Oxford Health Biomedical Research Centre nature.com/articles/s4159…

A paper describing how we developed Phoenix VR self-confidence automated therapy. The initial cohort trial indicated potentially large benefits for psychological wellbeing. Oxford Psychiatry Oxford Health Biomedical Research Centre games.jmir.org/2024/1/e51512

New early stage experimental work from our team on the use of VR for smoking cessation. Aitor Rovira our VR computer scientist lead. Oxford Psychiatry Oxford ExpPsychology Oxford Health Biomedical Research Centre nature.com/articles/s4159…

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. Oxford Psychiatry Oxford ExpPsychology jobs.ac.uk/job/DJL969/cli…

We are recruiting to a fantastic new Associate Professorship in Clinical Psychology position at Oxford Oxford ExpPsychology Oxford Institute of Clinical Psychology Training Reuben College, Oxford. Looking for a leader/future leader in rigorous clinical psychology research that has a clear trajectory to impact. my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecruit…

The power of virtual reality… @EllaRhodesPsych hears from those using the technology: has its early promise been realised? bps.org.uk/psychologist/p… Daniel Freeman Ivan Phelan @impactvrlab Domna Banakou @KathrynBFrancis Sea Hero Quest

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. Oxford Health NHS FT Oxford Health Biomedical Research Centre oxfordhealth.nhs.uk/careers/vacanc…

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, Richard Emsley and team. Oxford Psychiatry Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Happy to share that I successfully defended my Oxford Psychiatry DPhil thesis "Facial Expressions on Virtual Humans: Optimising Virtual Reality Applications for Mental Health" supervised by Aitor Rovira Daniel Freeman, assessed by Marieke Martens Prof Sylvia Pan 潘雪妮 at Magdalen College 🦌. A thread 👇

Hopefully this will prove a v valuable resourse: potential priorities for research on paranoia. lots of great questions. Excellent work by David A Sher and the team including Thomas Kabir Oxford Psychiatry mentalhealth.bmj.com/content/27/1/e…

Too late for Xmas... but the paperback of Paranoia is out at the end of January.

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

'Fascinating... shocking' @Spectator Daniel Freeman, 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!

A summation of our thinking about sleep and circadian difficulties and psychosis. Hopefully clinically valuable and an aid for theoretical understanding too. Felicity Waite Cambridge UP - Psychology & Psychiatry Oxford ExpPsychology cambridge.org/core/journals/…

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. Oxford ExpPsychology Oxford Psychiatry Cambridge UP - Psychology & Psychiatry cambridge.org/core/journals/…