Dr gwen adshead biography sample

          I trained first as a doctor, then as a psychiatrist, and then as a psychotherapist.

        1. I trained first as a doctor, then as a psychiatrist, and then as a psychotherapist.
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        3. Gwen Adshead (born ) is a forensic psychotherapist, Visiting Professor of Psychiatry at Gresham College, Jochelson visiting professor at the Yale School.
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        5. Gwen ADSHEAD, Forensic psychiatrist | Cited by | of National Health Service, Leeds (NHS) | Read publications | Contact Gwen ADSHEAD.
        6. Gwen Adshead (born ) is a forensic psychotherapist, Visiting Professor of Psychiatry at Gresham College, Jochelson visiting professor at the Yale School.!

          Gwen Adshead

          Forensic psychotherapist, academic

          Gwen Adshead (born 1960) is a forensic psychotherapist,[1]Visiting Professor of Psychiatry at Gresham College, Jochelson visiting professor at the Yale School of Law and Psychiatry, and consultant forensic psychiatrist at Ravenswood House.[2]

          Life

          At the age of 11 Adshead flew alone to England from her native New Zealand to attend Cheltenham Ladies' College as a boarder.[3] She qualified in medicine in 1983 and holds two master's degrees; in medical law and ethics, and in mindfulness-based cognitive therapy.[2] She was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists in 2005.[2] She was previously a consultant at Broadmoor Hospital, where she treated people referred to by the media as "the violent insane", but whom she described as "not mad or bad, but sad".[1] She has written more than a hundred academic papers.[1]

          In 2012 Adshead received a Jerwood