Paranoia - My Life Understanding and Treating Extreme Mistrust (Hardcover)

What is paranoia? What makes us mistrustful, what are the consequences, and how do we combat misplaced mistrust? Professor Daniel Freeman is Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Oxford, a Consultant clinical psychologist and a Fellow of The British Psychological Society. For fans of Quiet, Why We Sleep and It’s All in Your Head, this is a book that uses case studies and new science to examine paranoia: how it forms, how it can be linked to trauma, to sleep, to drug use, to other mental illnesses, to conspiracy beliefs and relationships with authority and other people – and its wider, subtle effects on us as a society.