Can We Treat Violence? - Professor Gwen Adshead

A clinical psychiatrist discusses what it means to treat violence: www.gresham.ac....
In this last lecture, Dr Adshead will discuss the conceptual implication of the term 'treatment' in relation to violence reduction and prevention. Drawing on her experience as a therapist working with violent men, she will discuss the purposes of therapy in this context; and the ethical implications.
She will review what is known about the effectiveness of therapy for violence perpetrators, and conclude with a discussion about what it might mean to treat human 'attitudes'.
The transcript and downloadable versions of the lecture are available from the Gresham College website: www.gresham.ac....
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[@Erkynar]

Thank you so much. Incredibly interesting and thought provoking.

[@arslongavitabrevis7241]

How do we know what makes for a "better" person? One who does not upset society, present a threat to a civil, just and humane society.

[@sonjademoor9398]

thanks for interesting lectures!!! appreciated Portrays a very different view of violence users than the 60ties 'experiments' such as Standford jail and Milgram shock punishments experiments. also for me very interesting: substance abuse plays a major role in violence and all statistics seem to point the finger to alcohol. Still alcohol is pictured as a positive thing in advertisements. Why do advertisers get away with that?

[@limerickman8512]

After your talk about Perpetrators of Human Violence - Professor Gwen Adshead
and the refusal to admit women as a large group of abusers of all in society. i doubt you (Dr Adshead) have solutions to solve it, when you leave out half of the genders who commit violence on a daily basis.