Intensive care delirium

DEC 12, 201814 MIN
A History of Delusions

Intensive care delirium

DEC 12, 201814 MIN

Description

<p>Clinical psychologist Professor Daniel Freeman continues his exploration of delusions, looking at both historic and contemporary case studies. </p><p>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.</p><p>Produced by Victoria Shepherd and Eve Streeter A Greenpoint Production for BBC Radio 4</p>