Lecture: Gwen Adshead

Mothers at Risk: Forensic Psychotherapy in the Antenatal and Postnatal Period

Gwen Adshead will talk about pregnancies that are risky from a psychological perspective; and the disorders and problems that may emerge at assessment.  She will discuss maternal personality disorder as a risk state for pregnancy; and relate this diagnosis to insecure attachment and childhood adversity. She will also discuss assessment of mothers who maltreat their children; and potential therapeutic interventions. 

Gwen Adshead is a forensic psychiatrist and psychotherapist. She trained at the IGA and at the Oxford centre for Mindfulness Studies. She has worked as a therapist with offenders for many years; and has experience of assessing and treating men and women who have posed a high risk of harm to others; usually in the context of mental disorders such as personality dysfunction. She has run therapy groups for people who have killed family members and mothers who have mistreated their children. She works as an expert in the family Courts; and she has also been involved in training perinatal practitioners. Gwen has published a number of books and papers; and is currently working on two further books. 

Book the whole series for £100. Email info@oxpip.org.uk