Notes On Contributors

Gwen Adshead is a forensic psychiatrist and psychotherapist. She has spent over thirty years providing therapy across a range of secure hospitals, community, and prison settings. Through her role as both a forensic psychiatrist and psychotherapist, she explores the underlying psychological mechanisms that lead to violent behaviour and she works alongside others to rehabilitate and offer secure psychiatric care to some of the most violent offenders in Britain. In addition to clinical practice, Dr Adshead has authored over 100 academic papers and book chapters. Dr Adshead has co-edited several academic books including A Matter of Security: The Application of Attachment Theory to Forensic Psychiatry; and Clinical Topics in Personality Disorder. She is also the co-editor of two Oxford handbooks in psychiatry: one in forensic psychiatry and the other in medical psychotherapy. In 2021, Dr Adshead published her first book for a lay audience, co-authored with Eileen Horne. Published by Faber, The Devil You Know: Tales of Cruelty and Compassion argues for the importance of a compassionate insight into the nature of evil and the value of stories that humanise offenders and correct misconceptions that lead to prejudice and cruelty.

Anne Aiyegbusi is a forensic psychotherapist group analyst and registered mental health nurse. Having retired from an NHS executive director of nursing role, she now works part time as principal psychotherapist and group analyst in the NHS. Anne is also director, consultant nurse, and psychotherapist at Psychological Approaches CIC, an independent training and consultancy company. Anne has worked in forensic settings for over thirty years, including fifteen years as a consultant nurse in high secure services for women. She has published and presented widely in relation to trauma in the context of women's mental health, racism, and the psychodynamics of forensic services.

Natalya Frolova was born in 1971 in Latvia. She completed her education as a psyc