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May 2016
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Cognitive approaches to treating psycho...

OXFORD UNIVERSITY
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Professor Daniel Freeman discusses his research into how psychosis can be treated through the use of cognitive behavioural techniques Professor Daniel Freeman is interviewed by Daniel Maughan about his current randomised controlled treatment trials. This is a test of a new targeted, personalised psychological treatment for persecutory delusions, called the F ... Show More
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