num_pages: 320
description: In eleven vivid narratives based on decades of providing therapy to people in prisons and secure hospitals an internationally renowned forensic psychiatrist and psychotherapist demonstrates the remarkable human capacity for radical empathy change and redemption.What drives someone to commit an act of terrible violence? Drawing from her thirty years experience in working with people who have committed serious offenses Dr. Gwen Adshead provides fresh and surprising insights into violence and the mind. Through a collaboration with coauthor Eileen Horne Dr. Adshead brings her extraordinary career to life in a series of unflinching portraits. Alongside doctor and patient we discover what human cruelty ranging from serial homicide to stalking arson or sexual offending means to perpetrators experiencing first-hand how minds can change when the people some might label as evil are able to take responsibility for their life stories and get to know their own minds. With outcomes ranging from hope to despair from denial to recovery these men and women are revealed in all their complexity and shared humanity.
language: English
title: The Devil You Know: Stories of Human Cruelty and Compassion
publisher: Scribner