Understanding Extreme Mistrust and Paranoia: Interview with Professor Daniel Freeman

Professor Daniel Freeman has dedicated his decades-long career to understanding paranoia and extreme mistrust. A lot of his clients and research participants are people with what we would generally consider to be more severe mental health challenges like schizophrenia, psychosis and mania. Despite this, his work fascinates me because of what I see in my clients in terms of their difficulty trusting others.

Even if you are someone who feels relatively at home talking about yourself, the matter of trusting someone else with the parts that you are more ashamed of or feel more vulnerable about can bring about real challenges in therapy.