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Experimental psychologist Daniel Freeman explores cases of delusion.

A History of Delusions: Intensive care delirium

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Clinical psychologist Daniel Freeman explores cases of delusion.

Psychologist Professor Daniel Freeman continues his exploration of delusions. In this programme he meets a man who experienced delusions due to being in an intensive care unit.

Clinical psychologist Professor Daniel Freeman continues his exploration of delusions, looking at both historic and contemporary case studies. 

In this programme he hears a case from 1892, of a patient at the Victorian psychiatric hospital Bethlem in London who believed that people were telephoning into her ears. And he meets a man who experienced delusions of being dead and under attack as a consequence of being in a hospital  intensive care unit.

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