Forensic Pyschiatrist on working with 'monsters'

In this episode of Minutes With, Gwen Adshead gives us an insightful account of her 30-year career as one of the UK's leading forensic psychiatrists. Gwen recounts her experience working beyond the walls of the UK's high security prisons and hospitals. Gwen recounts meeting the Yorkshire Ripper inside Broadmoor, hearing about the ways murderers cut up bodies and offers us an unprecedented look inside a therapy session with a serial killer.

Thank you to Gwen Adshead for taking part in this episode.

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[franciebelcher]

Her bravery and empathy are a truly rare n this day and age

[shazcon]

This is the best start to rehabilitation by not thinking they’re inherently bad. Some do prove to be bad but at least she gives them the chance to prove themselves otherwise

[benjic]

What a intriguing interview, and what a remarkable woman.

[ivywamahiga]

I’m a psychological therapist and this is so I love this perspective

[siofrarafferty]

I love this perspective. So valuable and humbling. Maybe we’re not ‘better’ than any other person, we’ve just had it better.

[devolutionone]

If everybody would have that empathic and compassionate approach, there wouldn't be so much violence in the first place.

[ViancaLouise]

It’s really refreshing to hear a few like this. I personally don’t think I could ever understand or want to be near somebody to let them comfortable and then if they ever hurt a child or an innocent person for nothing.

[harmoneyreilly]

Its very rare to find people who are like this its so nice to hear someone like me aa no one understands

[stup]

It's known as Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE)

[LouciferFlump]

She comes from an excellent and valid standpoint. But…some of us have experienced terrible violence and all we did was turn into Goths or something. Experiencing bad stuff, knowing it’s wrong, knowing it’s excruciating, it shouldn’t make you want to inflict that on others. I don’t want to hurt anybody. I would only if they hurt anyone I loved, in order to either protect them or to avenge their suffering if I didn’t have the ability to protect them at the time.

I still think some people are inherently evil. Trauma just brings it out in them. Other people, exposed to trauma, become heroes, crusaders, defenders, ambassadors for the downtrodden and abused. How do you account for that?

[pamspencer]

Emotional Intelligence, needs to be taught in schools! I worked at Attica prison in college. Horrific abuse, neglect changes your brain! I absolutely dreaded going into this maximum, security prison.! I cane out a changed person. The smell, sights, sounds~ Soulessness, sadness😓🙏💙

[pepleatherlab]

It isn't one event or moment that makes people monsters. It takes a long list of cascading intentional wrong choices that creates them. If we're going to use our imaginations and manufacture excuses, why not just imagine unicorns or anything else equally useless. Ultimately we all 'choose' who we are. I've seen people in the worst life circumstances elevate themselves with good choices. I've been one of those people. Monsters are self made, because free will is self directional.

[Alexmarshall]

This woman is a gem.
❤
I have always thought like this and thankfully now i know that i am not wrong to think like that.

[AimeeAimee]

I would never condone acts of violence yet I do often think a majority of the aggressors have experienced the extreme violence at a very young age.
My mother had an incredibly violent and difficult childhood. She’s taught me about kindest of caring for others as a child.
I admire her immense strength and compassion; she’s awe inspiring to me.
She chose to let the past stay in the past and created a beautiful family with my father.

[basiliofaria]

Wow someone did put some real thought on someone else circumstances. Is people like this women that changes some of us and we die with the evil inside .

[Nat]

This sounds like an excuse to do something terrible. Many people who experience violence as children still control themselves and seek healing.

[JMBZell]

I agree with her perspective, definitely. I also believe when a fetus is forming that wires get F’d up and create a human whose brain is wired that way and have completely normal childhoods.

[georgekatsireas]

Whats she said is 100% cause we literally share the same biological brain construction...so whatever is inside a criminal mind..its inside every other human brain too and the only difference is that hasn't triggered properly for the others to become criminal...

[SnapDragon-cn]

Were all capable of the same evil. People judge because they sin differently.

[scuffedsketches]

Alot if people have been through so much and have NOT KILLED PEOPLE actually MOST people DONT KILL PEOPLE. You think you could have morw in common as seems 😅 yeah.. maybe take a walk and talk to your own therapist ..why is this strange af? 🤔