Our Mental Wellness: Overcoming Mistrust and Paranoia (online via Zoom)
Registration is now open. (This talk was originally scheduled for 28 January, but has now been re-scheduled for 20 May.)
Our Mental Wellness is a lecture series that focuses on mental health topics of broad interest to staff, students and Mental Health Talk. This fourth talk in the series, on the topic of Overcoming Mistrust and Paranoia, will be presented by Daniel Freeman, Professor of Clinical Psychology.

A Q&A panel discussion will follow, chaired by Cathy Creswell (Professor of Developmental Clinical Psychology), and include Daniel Freeman, Elizabeth Tunbridge and Kam Bhui.

Abstract:
The world can certainly feel a dangerous place. We don’t talk about it nearly enough, but every day each of us must decide whether or not to trust other people. There’s no way around these decisions: they’re an inevitable part of life. Paranoia is excessive mistrust of other people. Many people have a few paranoid thoughts, a few have many paranoid thoughts. This talk will cover a number of key questions: What is paranoia? How common is it? What is the latest scientific understanding of the causes? And what can we do to tackle it?
Date: 20 May 2021, 14:00 (Thursday, 4th week, Trinity 2021)
Venue: Venue to be announced
Speakers: Professor Daniel Freeman (University of Oxford), Dr Elizabeth Tunbridge (University of Oxford ), Professor Kamaldeep Bhui (University of Oxford)
Organising department: Department of Experimental Psychology
Organiser: Halley Cohen (University of Oxford)
Organiser contact email address: halley.cohen@psy.ox.ac.uk
Part of: Our Mental Wellness Seminar Series
Booking required?: Required
Booking url: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_wRw5c4TvSv2vX2bTU36JPA
Cost: Free to attend
Audience: Members of the University only
Editor: Halley Cohen