The Devil You Know: Encounters in Forensic Psychiatry

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The author is fantastic, and throughly explains exactly those questions that pop into your head as your reading. In her opening pages, she describes chatting on aeroplanes with strangers and feeling tempted not to reveal what she does for a living to forestall reactions such as: “What a waste to bother with such monsters. When he refuses to collude in her fantasy, she persecutes him, attempting to poison his dog by slinging rotten meat into his garden.

The Devil You Know by Gwen Adshead, Eileen Horne | Waterstones The Devil You Know by Gwen Adshead, Eileen Horne | Waterstones

Adshead is a psychiatrist and psychotherapist who works with violent offenders who have been more often than not diagnosed with some form of psychosis. For his whole life, filmmaker Cody Swift has been haunted by the deaths of his childhood best friends. With the right support earlier on, Dr Adshead believes we can reduce the growing prison population and reduce incidences of violent offending. With that therapeutic process in mind, when I had finished reading I reflected on how those stories made me feel. In a series of 11 stories about cases she illustrates many key issues that affect the people she sees.I think I probably highlighted more sections in this than in most of the books I've read because they seemed so interesting and worth attention. The author believes that a lot of early trauma and family disruption can lead to great harm as an adult. With outcomes ranging from hope to despair, from denial to recovery, these men and women are revealed in all their complexity and shared humanity.

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

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Indeed this is a much more comforting premise than the reality starkly painted here that such offenders are actually little different to us and the product of the same rational society we purport to be a part of. In addition to being a practising clinician, Professor Adshead has authored over 100 academic papers in books and journals. Originally from Eritrea, Gabriel arrived in the UK as a young asylum-seeker, fleeing the violence and conflict of his homeland, but becoming separated from his family in the process. But beyond the headlines, and within these pages, lies the true narrative of the patients and alongside them, the calming presence of Adshead herself. Description In this 8220unmissable book8221 (The Guardian), an internationally renowned forensic psychiatrist and psychotherapist demonstrates the remarkable human capacity for radical empathy, change, and redemption.