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The Devil You Know: Encounters in Forensic Psychiatry

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Trying to be in a way that these different layers evolve in the thought processes of our mind can be difficult. It is this constant and reassuring voice, a voice not hesitant to admit to its own occasional missteps and misjudgments, that makes the book so valuable and absorbing. In her role as Visiting Gresham Professor of Psychiatry, Dr Adshead will present a series of lectures under the title Things of Darkness, based on a quote from The Tempest: ‘These things of darkness, I acknowledge mine’ in the 2014/15 academic year. She shows us how to question ourselves, our assumptions and what we can learn from the misfortune of others.

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vivi=B08LDX8YVP | [READ DOWNLOAD] The Devil You Know: Encounters in Forensic Psychiatry | In this 8220unmissable book8221 (The Guardian), an internationally renowned forensic psychiatrist and psychotherapist demonstrates the remarkable human capacity for radical empathy, change, and redemption. I struggled initially with this and found I was skipping chunks of the authors references to herself and her profession and reflection on the whole process.But it didn't take away from the evil act, and understanding will bring no peace at all to the poor young woman's family. It's interesting to note that there is not much in the way of long-term care in a hostel for people with mental health problems nowadays, in fact the average length of stay in a secure unit is three weeks. In therapy, Lydia presents as too well-behaved to be true but Adshead has, fortunately, learned to listen to her intuition as well as her intellect. But that most who are able to - want to change and become upstanding members of society and are incredible sorry for the pain and suffering they have caused their victim and their loved ones.

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The author relates many of the stories as survivors of disaster movies where the perpetrators are the disaster. Dr Gwen Adshead is Visiting Gresham Professor of Psychiatry and currently consultant forensic psychiatrist at Ravenswood House. If this seems to possibly prejudice the therapy in any way, she consults a supervisor or another psychiatrist. A compassionate work, the author succeeds in the difficult task of making the reader feel some empathy with the array of offending characters.Adshead, a witness to this fury and “with a speed fuelled by cowardice”, leapt into a hall cupboard and locked herself inside. She has over 20 years practice in the NHS and has contributed to the work of the Royal College of Psychiatrists as chair of their Ethics Committee; and she has also contributed to Department of Health policy in relation to abnormal maternal illness behaviour. She has spent over thirty years providing therapy inside secure hospitals and prisons for violent offenders. The cases are taken from both prisons and secure hospital setting as well as those who are in the community.

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