Gwen Adshead

Exchanges 

 

Unfortunately we were unable to interview Gwen Adshead.

Gwen Adshead is a consultant forensic psychotherapist at Broadmoor Hospital, a high-security psychiatric hospital in Berkshire. Here she oversees some of society's most problematic personalities, attempting to understand psychotic behaviour and find ways of treating it. She also has a degree in ethics and an interest in the relationship between doctors and their patients. Se talked to A C Grayling about what medicine can do for people with personality disorders, and whether hospital is the right place to hold them.

BBC World Service

Exchanges at the Frontier with Gwen Adshead was recorded at Broadmoor Hospital on 6 November 2010 and was broadcast on the World Service on 20 November 2010.

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