Notes on Contributors

Gwen Adshead is a forensic psychiatrist and psychotherapist. She trained as a group analyst, in mindfulness-based cognitive therapy and in mentalizing-based therapy. She has worked in secure psychiatric care for over thirty years and was a founder member and ex-President of the International Association for Forensic Psychotherapy. She has published over 150 academic papers and book chapters; and has co-edited and coauthored several textbooks for Oxford University Press and Cambridge University Press. In 2021, she published her first book for a general audience, called The Devil You Know: Encounters in Forensic Psychiatry. Email: gwen@gwenadshead.org

Anne Aiyegbusi is President of IAFP. She works part-time in the NHS as a psychotherapist and group analyst, as well as an organisational consultant for psychological approaches, CIC. Email: anne.aiyegbusi2@nhs.net

Wayne Bodkin, DCplPsych, is a psychoanalyst and couple and family therapist. He trained at Tavistock Relationships and holds a doctorate in couple psychodynamic psychotherapy. For more than thirty-five years he has lived and worked in Montpellier, where his practice moves between the consulting room, prison, and the public hospital, between couples and families and those who have transgressed. Since 2012 he has been consultant psychotherapist in the forensic sexual abuse unit of the CHU's psychiatry department. He is Vice-President of the French Society of Forensic Psychologists, and also several international associations devoted to questions of sexual violence. He writes and speaks widely, most recently in 2025 Living With Illness in the Couple: Clinical Reflections from a Special Interest Group, and in chapters on sport, institutions, and the fractures of family life. His work is concerned with what cannot be ignored, and what must sometimes be faced obliquely.

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Andrew Carroll has worked in forensic psychiatry for over twenty-five years and has a busy medic