Gwen Adshead
Biographic Data
| ID | 7340115 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gwen Adshead |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gwen |
| FAMILY NAME | Adshead |
| SIGNATURE | ADSHEAD G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Dadd Centre, Broadmoor Hospital, Crowthorne, Berks RG45 7EG, UK |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0807-1757 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Strangers and Angels
In this response, I elaborate on the important themes discussed by John Schlapobersky in his Foulkes lecture: those of relating, reflecting and reparation. I will focus on language in groups, and especially the language of the unspeakable. I will argue that there are other themes that are also active in the group analytic process: especially the theme of recovery and reconnection. I will illustrate my argument with quotes from a therapy group in …
Same but different
Feminist analyses address the way differences between the sexes are conceptualized and operationalized in society. In this paper, I discuss how violence by men and women is conceptualized as different in the psychological scientific discourses of forensic mental health. I suggest that these empirical discourses perpetuate assumptions of difference and discourage examination of similarities. Specifically, I will argue that neutralization technique…
The Life Sentence
In this article, I will discuss a narrative approach to psychodynamic group work with offenders. Drawing on my experience of running groups for offenders in a high secure psychiatric hospital, I will argue that (a) identity is created in narratives and stories and (b) that psychodynamic therapies allow people to change their narratives of themselves; and (c) that this is particularly significant when the story that must be told is one that involv…
Moving On
In this paper, the authors describe the work of a group set up for those patients who are leaving a high security forensic psychiatric hospital, all having been detained under the 1983 Mental Health Act for England and Wales. Background information on the hospital is presented, as well as an overall view of the patients and their problems. The origins of the group are documented, followed with examples of group dynamics peculiar to the practice o…
Current provision and recommendations for the management of psycho‐social morbidity following disaster in England
Although disasters remain statistically rare events, the last decade has seen an increase in the number of major incidents affecting the UK. Concurrent with this increase have come clinical data, showing how psycho‐social health may be adversely affected by disasters. Aims to give the UK Department of Health a survey of the current provision of psycho‐social care after disasters at English Regional Health Authority level and to make recommendatio…
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Current provision and recommendations for the management of psycho‐social morbidity following disaster in England
Although disasters remain statistically rare events, the last decade has seen an increase in the number of major incidents affecting the UK. Concurrent with this increase have come clinical data, showing how psycho‐social health may be adversely affected by disasters. Aims to give the UK Department of Health a survey of the current provision of psycho‐social care after disasters at English Regional Health Authority level and to make recommendatio…
Moving On
In this paper, the authors describe the work of a group set up for those patients who are leaving a high security forensic psychiatric hospital, all having been detained under the 1983 Mental Health Act for England and Wales. Background information on the hospital is presented, as well as an overall view of the patients and their problems. The origins of the group are documented, followed with examples of group dynamics peculiar to the practice o…
Same but different
Feminist analyses address the way differences between the sexes are conceptualized and operationalized in society. In this paper, I discuss how violence by men and women is conceptualized as different in the psychological scientific discourses of forensic mental health. I suggest that these empirical discourses perpetuate assumptions of difference and discourage examination of similarities. Specifically, I will argue that neutralization technique…
The Life Sentence
In this article, I will discuss a narrative approach to psychodynamic group work with offenders. Drawing on my experience of running groups for offenders in a high secure psychiatric hospital, I will argue that (a) identity is created in narratives and stories and (b) that psychodynamic therapies allow people to change their narratives of themselves; and (c) that this is particularly significant when the story that must be told is one that involv…
Strangers and Angels
In this response, I elaborate on the important themes discussed by John Schlapobersky in his Foulkes lecture: those of relating, reflecting and reparation. I will focus on language in groups, and especially the language of the unspeakable. I will argue that there are other themes that are also active in the group analytic process: especially the theme of recovery and reconnection. I will illustrate my argument with quotes from a therapy group in …
Psychology (5 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Psychoanalysis (3 works) · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Mental health (2 works) · Mental Health and Psychiatry (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works)