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And, yes, compassion for perpetrators too. and it would be a better society then, you think? i think it s more likely. dr gwen adshead, thank you very much indeed for coming on hardtalk. thank you. hello there. i m sure many people have been making the most of this generally dry weather with some sunshine we had a lot of sunshine actually around on tuesday, and we ve got more of the same for today. we start, though, with temperatures on the whole in double figures early on wednesday morning. but it ll be a bit colder, i think in the northeast ....
I think that human beings have a great capacity for goodness as much as they have a capacity for evil. and i think it s up to all societies and all persons to help build each other up in terms of that goodness. and that means developing our capacity for compassion. compassion for ourselves, compassion for victims, and, yes, compassion for perpetrators too. for perpetrators, too. and it would be a better society then, you think? i think it s more likely. dr gwen adshead, thank you very much indeed for coming on hardtalk. thank you. hello there. i m sure many people have been making the most of this ....
Is whether such people are inherently evil or whether they are sick. my guest today has spent more than three decades trying to treat some of the most violent offenders here in the uk. dr gwen adshead is a forensic psychiatrist as well as a psychotherapist, and has worked across a range of secure hospitals, prisons and in the community. why does she urge compassion and understanding for those who many brand as being simply evil? dr gwen adshead, welcome to hardtalk. thank you very much, zeinab. why did you decide to choose ....
And if the risk factors all line up in the right way, then the possibility for violence can happen. and i think that you see it s important to distinguish different kinds of killing. there s killing in a political context, there s killing in the context of drug crime, for example, and then there s the killing of people that you re close to, people you ve been in a relationship with, killing parents or children. killing in the context of a close relationship, that s a bit different, and you can t run them all the same. so, sometimes i ve met people who ve killed simply for profit, for example, the person who killed his wife for the insurance. and that s kind of fairly straightforward. but there are other situations, those very rare occasions where people kill when they re mentally unwell, and often they might kill a family member. it s interesting, dr gwen adshead, because you re saying people do this, people do that. but the fact of the matter is that 90% of homicides are committed by ....
Negative scrutiny if something goes wrong. and how do you overcome the taboos of talking about mental health? i mean, you yourself suffered from chronic post natal depression. so, how does society go around saying, look, we should talk about these things openly? well, i think we ve made giant strides, actually, in talking about mental health. and i think it s. i think for those of us who have had problems with their mental health, i think it is helpful to just remind people that mental. periods of mental ill health are not unusual in a long and happy human life, and good treatments exist that help to promote recovery. and i can vouch for that. so, i think the more of us who have those kind of experiences talk about them, need to do so, if only to highlight how different those cases are where we can t do anything. finally, dr gwen adshead, you know, you ve been a. it s a tough job. i mean, the role of a forensic psychiatrist addresses how a society responds to and treats people ....