The Devil You Know – Signed Copy

Dr Gwen Adshead and Eileen Horne

ISBN: 9780571357604S

£16.99

Signed hardback copy of The Devil You Know by Dr Gwen Adshead and Eileen Horn.

First Edition, First Printing.

Hand signed by Dr Gwen Adshead to the publisher’s bookplate

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Description

One of Britain’s leading forensic psychiatrists shares the eye-opening insights that she has gained providing therapy to countless violent criminals and calls for greater compassion and shared humanity in the face of complex and emotive psychological issues.

A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week

A perspective-shattering work into the minds of violent criminals that reveals profound consequences for human nature and society at large.

Serial homicide. Stalking. Arson. Gang crime. Who are the people behind these acts of terrible violence? What are their stories? And what is it like to sit opposite them?

Dr Gwen Adshead is one of Britain’s leading forensic psychiatrists, and she has spent thirty years providing therapy inside secure hospitals and prisons. Whatever her patient’s crime she aims to help them to better know their minds by helping them to articulate their life experience.

Through a collaboration with co-author Eileen Horne, Adshead brings her work to life in these fascinating, unflinching portraits of individuals who newspaper headlines, TV dramas and crime fiction label ‘monsters’.

Case by case, Adshead takes us into the treatment room and reveals these men and women in all their complexity and vulnerability. She sheds new light on the unpredictable nature of the therapeutic process as doctor and patient try to find words for the unspeakable. These are stories of cruelty and despair but also of change and recovery.

In a time of increasing polarisation, in the face of overcrowded prisons and devastating cuts to mental health care, Adshead speaks to our shared humanity and makes the case for compassion over condemnation, empathy over fear. The Devil You Know challenges what we think we know about evil. It is a rare book that has the power to change minds.

‘Exceptional.’ – Val McDermid

‘Gripping … and ultimately enlightening.’ – Philippe Sands

‘Extraordinary.’ – Sebastain Faulks

Further Information

Format Hardback
Publisher Faber & Faber
Published 03/06/2021
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