How To Overcome Trauma, With Psychotherapist Dr Gwen Adshead (Part Two)

Welcome to Intelligence Squared, where great minds meet. I'm producer Mia Sorenti. What does trauma do to our sense of self, and how can we begin to rebuild after it? In this episode we return for part two of our recent live event with forensic psychiatrist and psychotherapist Dr. Gwen Adshead.

Adshead joined us recently at the Kiln Theatre to discuss how we understand and overcome trauma. Drawing on three decades of clinical experience, Adhead explores how traumatic events shape identity, and through case studies she makes the case that alongside post-traumatic stress is also the possibility of post-traumatic growth. She was in conversation with palliative care doctor, author and broadcaster Rachel Clark. If you haven't heard part one, we recommend jumping back an episode to get up to speed.

Now let's return to the conversation live at the Kiln Theatre. In exactly the same way that a surgeon, when they're conducting an operation, quite literally with their scalpel has the power of life and death with this individual, it's very clear that sometimes in the conversations you have with your patients, you have an enormous responsibility bearing down on you. You have the potential for enabling somebody to live with their trauma, to redefine their trauma, their their sense of themselves in a way that enables them to live their life, but also the jeopardy of saying or doing the wrong thing that might make things worse.

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