RSA Conversations

What drives people to commit the most heinous crimes?

Episode Summary

Forensic Psychiatrist, Gwen Adshead, has spent thirty years working in Broadmoor, England’s largest psychiatric hospital. She joins Matthew to offer an insight into the minds of perpetrators of violent crime and argues for compassion over condemnation.

Episode Notes

In this lively interview series from the RSA, Matthew Taylor, puts a range of practitioners on the spot - from scholars to business leaders, politicians to journalists - by asking for big ideas to help build effective bridges to our new future.

Dr. Gwen Adshead is one of the UK’s leading forensic psychiatrists and psychotherapists and the co-author of The Devil You Know: Stories of Human Cruelty and Compassion

A Tempo & Talker production for the RSA.  

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