Better Thinking podcast · Episode 118

Dr Gwen AdsheadThe Psychology of Violence and Life Threatening Behaviour

Hosted by Nesh Nikolic ·

Dr Gwen Adshead

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Dr Gwen Adshead

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Nesh Nikolic

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Dr Gwen Adshead

A conversation with Nesh Nikolic, Canberra clinical psychologist.

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In this episode of Better Thinking, Nesh Nikolic speaks with Dr Gwen Adshead about the psychological mechanisms that give rise to violence and life threatening behaviour toward others.

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.

Episode link at https://neshnikolic.com/podcast/gwen-adshead

General information only. This episode is a conversation for general education and is not a substitute for advice from your own health professional. If you need support now, call Lifeline on 13 11 14 (24 hours, a service of Lifeline Australia). In an emergency, call 000.

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Strategic Psychology is a Canberra practice offering counselling and assessments for adults, children, adolescents and couples. Medicare rebates are available to eligible clients with a referral.