What drives someone to commit an act of terrible violence? Drawing from her thirty years of experience in providing therapy to people in prisons and secure hospitals who have committed serious offenses, Dr. Gwen Adshead provides fresh and surprising insights into violence and the mind. Through a collaboration with coauthor Eileen Horne, Dr. Adshead brings her extraordinary career to life in a series of unflinching portraits. A perspective-shattering work into the minds of violent criminals that reveals profound consequences for human nature and society at large.

The Devil You Know: Encounters in Forensic Psychiatry The Devil You Know: Encounters in Forensic Psychiatry

I heard forensic psychiatrist Dr Gwen Adshead speak at the Edinburgh Book Festival in August and was prompted to buy this, her latest release, co-written by American author Eileen Horne. A fascinating, erudite, and beautifully written deep dive into the nature of evil. The Devil You Know makes the case for radical empathy and reminds us that all human beings are capable of darkness, and of light."Dr. Gwen Adshead is one of the UK’s leading forensic psychiatrists and psychotherapists. She has spent thirty years working in Broadmoor, England’s largest secure psychiatric hospital, with groups and individual patients convicted of serious violent offences, as well as with people in prisons and in the community. Gwen has a Master’s degree in medical law and ethics and has published several academic books and over one hundred papers and commissioned articles on forensic psychotherapy, moral reasoning and ethics, and attachment theory. She is a founder member of the International Association for Forensic Psychotherapy and has been a visiting professor at Yale University and Gresham College in the UK. Lydia ; çocukluk döneminde bakım veren kişi ile kurulan bağlanma yapısının, yetişkinlikteki etkileşimlere etkilerini, ısrarlı takip suçu çerçevesinde işliyor. Alongside doctor and patient, we discover what human cruelty, ranging from serial homicide to stalking, arson or sexual offending, means to perpetrators, experiencing firsthand how minds can change when the people some might label as “evil” are able to take responsibility for their life stories and get to know their own minds. With outcomes ranging from hope to despair, from denial to recovery, these men and women are revealed in all their complexity and shared humanity. In this era of mass incarceration, deep cuts in mental health care and extreme social schisms, this book offers a persuasive argument for compassion over condemnation. There is a fascinating story about Lydia who is a stalker who eventually managed to persuade everybody that she is quite reasonable and rational but then in one of the discussions with the psychiatrist, it turns out that she is so far from reality and still so intent on causing harm to the person she was stalking, that I thought about it for days. Most people who suffer mental health are often harmless to society and are at greater risk of harm from others than the rest of society. The author is so compassionate and full of wisdom in how she helps these people.

The Devil You Know : Encounters in Forensic Psychiatry The Devil You Know : Encounters in Forensic Psychiatry

Dr Gwen Adshead is one of Britain's leading forensic psychiatrists. She treats serial killers, arsonists, stalkers, gang members and other individuals who are usually labelled 'monsters'. Whatever their crime, she listens to their stories and helps them to better understand their terrible acts of violence. Here Adshead invites the reader to step with her into the room to meet twelve patients and discover how minds can change. These men and women are revealed in all their complexity and shared humanity. Their stories make a powerful case for rehabilitation over revenge, compassion over condemnation. The Devil You Know will challenge everything you thought you knew about human nature. In addition to being a practising clinician, Professor Adshead has authored over 100 academic papers in books and journals. She is a regular guest on radio and television, where she has discussed issues as diverse as criminal mental health and her “Desert Island Discs”. She regularly teaches medical students, psychiatric trainees and presents at conferences nationally and internationally. Dr Adshead’s career has taken her across the male and female prison estate as well as Specialist NHS Foundation Hospital’s like Broadmoor and other medium secure forensic (mental health units for prisoners who become very ill or who are ill already) facilities. This has led her to caring for patients like Tony* who is a serial killer, Kezia a female who attempted to kill her mental health worker, Lydia a habitual serial stalker who tried to kill her therapist and many more.The book does not dwell on the sordid details of the persons offences, present and past, but on the human interaction and the real person behind the crime.That was one of the things that drew me to the book in the first place.Also, as a psychologist I am interested in how my peers and senior colleagues like Dr Adshead interact with their patients on a day-to-day basis and manage some of the most challenging situations – it’s a great way to learn from the best.This fabulous book will appeal to those who love true crime novels or TV shows, to those that have a general interest in society including its darker side as well as health care and criminal justice staff. The Devil You Know discusses a number of Dr Adshead's cases throughout her impressive career. It was certainly eye-opening in a number of ways, and sometimes heart-breaking, but unfortunately as a whole it didn't work all that well for me. Note that this is clearly an unpopular opinion, as my fellow readers all loved it. Some cases I found fascinating, others much less so. I disliked the sometimes flowery language, and things like the literary quotes the doctor would think of when she stepped into a room for a consultation that just bugged me and took me out of the experience. Again, this is clearly me being overly sensitive. I also felt that it was somewhat one-sided, monotonous, lots of X or Y grew up in bad circumstances and was exposed to this and that horror and here we are today, with X or Y having committed this or that crime.Adshead presents us with eleven cases consisting of interviews with eleven violent, and physiologically disturbed criminals. These particular people are deemed mentally ill, so they are housed in psychiatric hospital prisons such as Broadmoor, and here, is where I find it difficult to understand.

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Today’s statistics indicate that seven out of ten people in the UK are likely to experience PTSD in their lives For me, this was what pulled me into this book. Yes, there may be common themes which may suggest someone's risk of violence, but there is also an individuality, to each perpetrator, and Dr Adshead will be offering insight into this particular individuality for some of the cases that she has worked on.A physician recounts stories from her years at Broadmoor, Britain’s premier psychiatric institution.