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🗓️ 23 December 2024
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Anita Anand invites you to listen to forensic psychiatrist Dr Gwen Adshead’s Reith Lectures about violence. In the series, Dr Adshead addresses the most pertinent questions she has faced in her work with violence perpetrators in secure psychiatric units and prisons.
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0:50.9 | Hello, I'm Anita Arndt. Have you ever wondered why some people are prone to violence? Is violence part of human nature? |
0:57.6 | Is there such a thing as evil? Can violent people change? Now these are complex, but very important questions and ones which we will explore in a fascinating series of talks by Dr. Gwen |
1:05.1 | Adzhead for BBC Radio 4's Reith Lectures. Drawing on her extensive experiences, a forensic psychiatrist, |
1:13.4 | working in prisons and secure hospitals, Dr. Adzhead is going to consider the roots of violence |
1:19.6 | and how violent offenders might be rehabilitated. In this excerpt from her first lecture, Dr. Adzhead |
1:27.3 | contemplates how and when certain risk factors come together in a particular individual and how this may result in violence. |
1:38.4 | Cast your mind back to the summer and the weeks before the finals of the euros when all sorts of emotions ran high. |
1:47.0 | Hope, suspense, anxiety, frustration. |
1:53.0 | Alcohol use sores and apparently so do rates of domestic violence. |
1:59.0 | A charity called Women's Aid cited evidence |
2:02.7 | that men's violence to their wives and partners |
2:05.8 | went up by 38% if their team loses, |
2:10.9 | as if abusers expel their frustration and disappointment |
2:15.3 | from their minds onto the bodies of others. |
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