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Gwen Adshead
Psychology & Personal Growth
Gwen Adshead is a forensic psychiatrist and psychotherapist whose clinical work and writing explore violence, responsibility, and the capacity for change.
Biography
Gwen Adshead, born in 1960, is a forensic psychiatrist, psychotherapist and academic. She has worked for the NHS for nearly three decades and is a consultant at Broadmoor Hospital. She has published hundreds of research papers and is a Sunday Times bestselling author.
Her clinical experience includes thirty years of providing therapy to people in prisons and secure hospitals who have committed serious offenses. In The Devil You Know, written with Eileen Horne, she draws on this work through portraits of patients. Her account explores how people understand their violence, take responsibility for their actions and develop insight into their own minds, while acknowledging outcomes ranging from denial and despair to recovery and hope.
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Books by Gwen Adshead
The Devil You Know
The Devil You Know (2021), by Gwen Adshead and Eileen Horne, draws on Adshead’s therapeutic work with people who have committed serious offenses to examine violence and the mind. Through patient portraits, it explores responsibility, empathy and the possibility of change, making an argument for compassion rather than condemnation.