The Devil You Know: Encounters in Forensic Psychiatry

by Gwen Adshead

Carl Jung, that “thinking is hard, that’s why most people judge.”

I know that the opposite is true: “feelings aren’t facts,” as I often repeat to trainees, and they will pass.

Telling these tales of suffering and violence will have served a purpose if, next time you see a news item or a film about some “evil monster,” it’s possible for you to look at them with a new consciousness, knowing that we are all more alike than we are different.