The Devil You Know by Gwen Adshead - ISBN: 9781982134808
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Unflinching portraits of violent minds, revealing empathy, change, and shared humanity.

The Devil You Know

Encounters in Forensic Psychiatry

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  • Paperback

    336 pages

  • Release Date

    23 August 2022

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Summary

In this “unmissable book” (The Guardian), an internationally renowned forensic psychiatrist and psychotherapist explores the psychology of violence and demonstrates the remarkable human capacity for radical empathy, change, and redemption.

What drives someone to commit an act of terrible violence? Drawing from her thirty years of experience in providing therapy to violent offenders in prisons and secure psychiatric hospitals who have committed serious offenses, Dr. Gwen Adshead provid…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781982134808
ISBN-10:1982134801
Author:Gwen Adshead, Eileen Horne
Publisher:Scribner Book Company
Imprint:Scribner Book Company
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:336
Release Date:23 August 2022
Weight:259g
Dimensions:22mm x 140mm x 212mm
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The Devil You Know by Gwen Adshead - ISBN: 9781982134808
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About The Author

Gwen Adshead

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.

Eileen Horne is an American author and dramatist currently based in California, with an MA in Creative Writing from the University of London. Following a long career in the UK as an independent TV drama producer, over the last decade, she has written an eclectic mix of historical nonfiction, journalism, Italian translation, as well as several original dramas and literary adaptations–including contributing to a BBC radio drama series about an entirely fictional female forensic psychiatrist.

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