Macar asıllı psikiyatr. 1947 yılında Budapeşte’de doğdu. 1956 ayaklanması döneminde ailesi ile birlikte Kanada’ya göçtü. Montreal’deki McGill Üniversitesi’nde öğrenimini tamamladıktan sonra, 1969 yılında İngiltere’ye gitti ve o zamandan beri de bu ülkede yaşamaktadır. Özellikle korku kültürü, şiddet, terapi kültürü ve paranoyak ebeveynlik konularında çalışmaları bulunmaktadır. Füredi’nin yayınlanmış eserleri şunlardır:

The Soviet Union Demystified: A Materialist Analysis, Junius Publications, 1986

The Mau Mau War in Perspective, James Currey Publishers, 1989

Mythical Past, Elusive Future: History and Society in an Anxious Age, Pluto Press, 1991

The New Ideology of Imperialism: Renewing the Moral Imperative, Pluto Press, 1994

Colonial Wars and the Politics of Third World Nationalism, IB Tauris, 1994

Culture of Fear: Risk Taking and the Morality of Low Expectation, Continuum International Publishing Group, 1997

Population and Development: A Critical Introduction, Palgrave Macmillan, 1997

The Silent War: Imperialism and the Changing Perception of Race, Pluto Press, 1998

Courting Mistrust: The Hidden Growth of a Culture of Litigation in Britain, Centre for Policy Studies, 1999

Paranoid Parenting: Abandon Your Anxieties and Be a Good Parent, Allen Lane, 2001

Therapy Culture: Cultivating Vulnerability in an Uncertain Age, Routledge, 2003

Where Have All the Intellectuals Gone?: Confronting Twenty-First Century Philistinism, Continuum International Publishing Group, 2004

The Politics of Fear. Beyond Left and Right, Continuum International Publishing Group, 2005

Invitation to Terror: The Expanding Empire of the Unknown, Continuum International Publishing Group, 2007

Wasted: Why Education Isn’t Educating, Continuum International Publishing Group, 2009

On Tolerance: The Life Style Wars: A Defence of Moral Independence, Continuum International Publishing Group, 2011