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Is everyone talking about you behind your back?

Is your coworker trying to undermine you?

Why are you always afraid that something bad is going to happen? For years, paranoia was seen as a symptom of severe mental illness,

but in recent decades, some psychologists have begun to think about it differently.

They've found that paranoid thoughts are relatively common, that there are links between paranoia and other forms of mistrust and anxiety, and that there are therapeutic treatments that can help.

So what are the causes of paranoia? Is paranoia and mistrust more generally becoming more common? Where is the line between a healthy level of skepticism and mistrust and problematic paranoia?

What's the link between paranoia and anxiety? Or paranoia and schizophrenia? And what help is available for

those suffering from paranoia in its more severe or mild forms?

Welcome to Speaking of Psychology,

the flagship podcast of the American Psychological Association

that examines the links between psychological science and everyday life.

I'm Kim Mills.

My guest today is Dr. Daniel Freeman,

chair of psychology at the University of Oxford,

and a consultant clinical psychologist in the Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust.

He leads the Oxford Cognitive Approaches to Psychosis Research Group and is one of the world's leading experts on paranoia.

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