Dr Gwen Adshead – “All the Strange Children: Childhood Adversity and the Risk of Later Violence”

The Hallam Institute is delighted to announce that Dr Gwen Adshead will be speaking in our next online event on Saturday 22nd November on “All the Strange Children: Childhood Adversity and the Risk of Later Violence”.

Dr Gwen Adshead is a forensic psychiatrist and psychotherapist. For thirty years she has worked as a therapist with violence perpetrators in prisons and secure psychiatric hospitals. She has a particular interest in attachment theory and how that paradigm might help understand interpersonal difficulties and conflict in adulthood. Gwen has published widely on her work in academic journals and books; and has been a visiting professor at Yale and at Gresham College. Her first work for a general audience was written with her friend Eileen Horne and is titled ‘The Devil you know’ ( Faber 2021). Gwen gave the BBC’s annual Reith Lectures in 2024 on the theme of violence and its complexity.

About the organisers

The Hallam Institute of Psychotherapy is an organisational member of the UK Council of Psychotherapy. It has been accrediting psychoanalytic psychotherapists for the last 20 plus years.

It has run face to face events in Yorkshire, where it is based as well as online events 3-4 times per year. For more information see https://www.hallaminstitute.org/

Tickets – tickets on sale soon.

Buy tickets for £25-45 at https://www.hallaminstitute.org/product/ticket-gwen-adshead/

All ticket holders will receive access to a recording of Gwen’s presentation after the event, available for 30 days. In order to protect confidentiality, the discussion will not be recorded.

Ticket costs will be used to cover the event costs with any additional money taken being use to support the work of the Hallam Institute of Psychotherapy.

Invitations will be sent out to all those who have registered for the event 24 hours before the event.

Any enquiries about the event, please contact admin@hallaminstitute.org