What drives people to commit terrible acts of violence, such as murder and sexual assault? This question is the subject of a new book, written by internationally renowned forensic psychiatrist and ...

Faber has acquired Unspeakable by Dr Gwen Adshead and Eileen Horne, a “transformative” new book on trauma and healing from the authors of The Devil You Know (Faber, 2021). Associate publisher Laura ...

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 ...

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Can we change violent minds? December 3, 2024 58 minutes Available for over a year In her second Reith Lecture, Dr Gwen Adshead asks if there’s such a thing as “evil.”? In a career spanning nearly 40 ...

Georgina Godwin sits down with Mark Freestone, author of ‘Making a Psychopath’ and Gwen Adshead, co-author of ‘The Devil You Know’ to discuss the dark world of psychopaths. Both have spent time in the ...

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A therapist who has treated some of Britain’s most violent criminals tells Maggie Fergusson that understanding starts with a recognition that there is a capacity for cruelty in all of us The therapist ...

In her second Reith Lecture, Dr Gwen Adshead asks if there’s such a thing as “evil"? In a career spanning nearly 40 years, the forensic psychiatrist has heard many of her patients ask: “I have done ...

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