The Devil You Know: Encounters in Forensic Psychiatry

by Gwen Adshead

it is a measure of a just society that we treat the worst of us with compassion.

all doctors go toward suffering and make what difference they can.

importance of listening out for the unconscious poetry that may be heard even from those who seem dangerously alien.

the present tense revealing how “live” his terror was to him.

In order to get to this place of trust and attention, he’d had to go out and commit an act of near-fatal violence; this sorry irony is something