Is there such a thing as Evil?
Forensic Psychiatrist Dr Gwen Adshead asks if there's such a thing as Evil?
In her third Reith Lecture, Dr Gwen Adshead asks if there鈥檚 such a thing as 鈥渆vil.鈥�? In a career spanning nearly 40 years the forensic psychiatrist has heard many of her patients ask: 鈥� I have done evil things but does that make me evil.鈥�?
Ideas about what evil is a complex interplay between the social and the individual. Dr Adshead says that we have often confused 鈥渆vil鈥� with mental illness. She argues that in certain circumstances we all have capacity for 鈥渆vil鈥� and says we need to find ways to cultivate societal and individual 鈥済oodness.鈥� The programme is recorded at the V&A in Dundee, Scotland, in front of an audience and includes a Q and A after Dr Adshead's lecture.
The Reith Lectures on Radio 4
Archive recordings from the 麻豆社's flagship annual lecture series going back to 1948
