A History of Delusions
A History of Delusions
Intensive care delirium
12 December 2018
Available for over a year
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.
Produced by Victoria Shepherd and Eve Streeter
A Greenpoint Production for BBC Radio 4
