Forensic psychology in secure hospitals

The Forensic Psychology Podcast

This episode features a forensic psychologist who worked in Broadmoor secure hospital for nearly three decades.

Derek Perkins, Ph.D. is a UK Consultant Clinical & Forensic Psychologist at West London NHS Trust, and Honorary Professor of Forensic Psychology at Royal Holloway University of London. He is the co-director of the online Protect research group on internet-related sexual offending, and a Trustee of the Lucy Faithfull Foundation child protection charity. Prof Perkins was Head of Psychological Services at Broadmoor Hospital (high secure psychiatric service for London and the South of England) from 1986-2013, having previously worked in the UK Prison Service and Midland Centre for Forensic Psychiatry. He has extensive experience in the assessment and treatment of sex offenders, including the interface between personality disorders and sexual offending, psychophysiological and other lab-based assessments of sexual interest, internet-related sexual offending, child sexual abuse and sexual homicide. He is regularly instructed in family and criminal court proceedings, including criminal court work and training in Hong Kong.

Further reading:

Bates, L (2021). Men Who Hate Women. Simon & Schuster UK. ISBN13: 9781398504653

Blackburn, R. (1995) The Psychology of Criminal Conduct: Theory, Research and Practice. ISBN: 978-0-471-96175-8

Black, D.A (2002) Broadmoor Interacts: Criminal Insanity Revisited: a Psychological Perspective on its Clinical Development. Barry Rose Law Publishers Ltd

Gordon, H (2012) Broadmoor. London: Psychology News Press. ISBN 978-0-907-63335-8;

Walton, J. & Hocken. K. (2020). Acceptance and Compassion as Interventions for Paraphilia. In Perkins. D., Akerman, G., Bartols, R. (eds).Assessing Sexual Interest and Arousal.