CodeBPS/GB/200
NameGudjonsson; Gisli (1947-); Professor; CBE, FBPsS, CPsychol
TitleProfessor
ForenamesGisli
SurnameGudjonsson
Dates1947-
EpithetCBE, FBPsS, CPsychol
Parallel NameG Gudjonsson
GenderMale
NationalityBritish
DatesAndPlacesPolice Department, Reykjavik, Iceland, early 1970s
West Park and Epsom District Hospitals, 1977-1979
NHS Clinician 1980
Institute of Psychiatry 1987- current
Magistrate at Croydon Magistrates Court, 1991-1999
Lambeth Forensic Services (nd)
AddressLondon
ActivityDate of Birth: 26/10/1947
Place of Birth: Reykjavik, Iceland

University and Professional Training:
BSc Social Sciences, Brunel University, 1975,
Masters (MSc) Clinical Psychology, University of Surrey (nd)
PhD Psychology, University of Surrey, 1981

Awards
Honorary Doctorate in Medicine from the University of Iceland, 2001
British Psychological Society Lifetime Achievement Award, 2009
Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE), HMGovernment 2011
Fellow of the British Psychological Society (FBPsS)


Professional career:
Policeman (uniform and CID), Reykjavik, Iceland (early 1970s)
Basic Grade Clinical Psychologist at West Park and Epsom District Hospitals, 1977-1979
NHS Clinician 1980
Lecturer/ Senior Lecturer, Institute of Psychiatry 1987-1993
Magistrate at Croydon Magistrates Court, 1991-1999
Reader in Forensic Psychology, 1993-1999
Head of Forensic Psychology Services for Lambeth Forensic Services and Medium Secure Unit at the South London and Maudsley NHS Trust (SLaM)., (nd)
Consultant in a large number of cases for the police, prosecution, and defence lawyers, and provided written or oral testimony in many high profile cases (nd)
He has also testified abroad, including the USA, Canada, Norway (The Brigitte Tengs and Orderud cases), Israel, and the Hague (nd)
Expert for the Council of Europe on a CPT inspection visit to Northern Ireland., 1999
Professor of Forensic Psychology at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London 2000-
Consultant Forensic Psychologist in the South London and Maudsley NHS Trust’s Forensic Service and Head of Forensic Psychology for the South London and Maudsley NHS Trust’s Behavioural and Developmental Psychiatry Clinical Academic Group.

Sources: Gisli Gudjonsson's CV.

Compiled by Mike Maskill, BPS Archivist for the History of Psychology Centre.
PublishedWorksSelected Publications:

Eysenck, H. and Gudjonsson, G. H. (1989). The Causes and Cures of Criminality. New York and London: Plenum Press.

Gudjonsson, G. H. (1992). The Psychology of Interrogations, Confessions, and Testimony. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons.

Gudjonsson, G. H. (1997). The Gudjonsson Suggestibility Scales Manual. Hove: Psychology Press.

Gudjonsson, G .H. and Haward, L. R. C. (1998). Forensic Psychology: A Guide to Practice. London: Routledge.

Gudjonsson, G. H. (2003). The Psychology of Interrogations and Confessions. A Handbook. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons.

Heaton-Armstrong, A., Shepherd, E., Gudjonsson, G., and Wolchover, D. (2006, eds) Witness Testimony. Psychological, Investigative and Evidential Perspectives. Oxford. Oxford University Press.

Young, S., Kopelman, M., and Gudjonsson, G. (2009, eds). Forensic Neuropsychology in Practice. A Guide to Assessment and Legal Processes. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Completed research projects for the Royal Commission on Criminal Justice (published as HMSO reports):

Gudjonsson, G. H., Clare, I., Rutter, S. and Pearse, J. (1993). Persons at risk during interviews in police custody: The identification of vulnerabilities. Royal Commission on Criminal Justice. London: H.M.S.O.

Clare, I. and Gudjonsson, G. H. (1992). Devising and piloting a new “Notice to Detained Persons”. Royal Commission on Criminal Justice. London: H.M.S.O.

Selected journal articles:

Gudjonsson, G. H. and Gunn, J. (1982). The Competence and reliability of a Witness in a Criminal Court. British Journal of Psychiatry, 141, 624 627.

Gudjonsson, G. H. (1983). Suggestibility, Intelligence, Memory Recall and Personality: An Experimental Study. British Journal of Psychiatry, 142, 35 37.

Gudjonsson, G. H. and MacKeith, J. A. C. (1983). A Regional Interim Secure Unit at the Bethlem Royal Hospital The first fourteen months. Medicine, Science and the Law, 23, 209 216

Gudjonsson, G. H. (1984). A new scale of interrogative suggestibility. Personality and Individual Differences, 5, 303 314.

Gudjonsson, G. H. and Clark, N. K. (1986). Suggestibility in Police Interrogation: A Social Psychological Model. Social Behaviour, 1, 83 104.

Gudjonsson, G. H. (1987). A parallel form of the Gudjonsson Suggestibility Scale. British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 26, 215 221.

Gudjonsson, G. H. (1988). Interrogative suggestibility: Its relationship with assertiveness, social evaluative anxiety, state anxiety and method of coping. British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 27, 159 166.

Gunn, J. and Gudjonsson, G. (1988). Using the psychological stress evaluator in conditions of extreme stress. Psychological Medicine, 18, 235 238.

Gudjonsson, G. H. and Singh, K. K. (1989). The revised Gudjonsson Blame Attribution Inventory. Personality and Individual Differences, 10, 67 70.

Gudjonsson, G. H. (1989). Compliance in an interrogation situation: A new scale. Personality and Individual Differences, 10, 535 540.

Gudjonsson, G. H. and Petursson, H. (1990). Homicide in the Nordic Countries. Acta Psychiatr. Scand., 82, 49-54.

Clare, I. C. H. and Gudjonsson, G. H. (1995). The vulnerability of suspects with intellectual disabilities during police interviews: A review and experimental study of decision-making. Mental Handicap Research, 8, 110-128.

Gudjonsson, G. H. and Sigurdsson, J. F. (1999). The Gudjonsson Confession Questionnaire-Revised (GCQ-R). Factor structure and its relationship with personality. Personality and Individual Differences, 27, 953-968.

Gudjonsson, G. H., Kopelman, M. D. and MacKeith, J. A. C. (1999). Unreliable admissions to homicide: A case of misdiagnosis of amnesia and misuse of abreaction technique. British Journal of Psychiatry, 174, 455-459.

Gudjonsson, G. H., Rabe-Hesketh, S. and Wilson, C. (1999). Violent incidents on a medium secure unit over a 17-year period. Journal of Forensic Psychiatry, 10. 249-263.

Gudjonsson, G. H., Rabe-Hesketh, S. and Wilson, C. (2000). Violent incidents in a psychiatric hospital. The target of assault and the management of incidents. Journal of Forensic Psychiatry, 11, 105-118.

Gudjonsson, G. H., Murphy, G. H. and Clare, I. C. H. (2000). Assessing the capacity of people with intellectual disabilities to be witnesses in court. Psychological Medicine, 30, 307-314.

Walker, J. and Gudjonsson, G. (2000). The Lancashire Quality of Life Profile-Data and experiences with 58 detained mentally disordered offenders. Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health, 10,123-135.

Henry, L. A. and Gudjonsson, G. H. (2003). Eyewitness memory, suggestibility and repeated recall sessions in children with mild and moderate intellectual disabilities. Law and Human Behavior, 27 481-505.

Gudjonsson, G. H. (2003). Psychology brings justice. The science of forensic psychology. Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health, 13, 159-167.

Young, S., Gudjonsson, G. H., Ball. S., and Lam, J. (2003). Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in personality disordered offenders and the association with disruptive behavioural problems. The Journal of Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology, 14, 491-505.

Gudjonsson, G. H., Rabe-Hesketh, S. and Szmukler, G. (2004). Violence by psychiatric in-patients. Management by medication, restraint and seclusion and ethnic influence. British Journal of Psychiatry, 184, 258-262.

Rutter, S., Gudjonsson, G. and Rabe-Hesketh, S. (2004). Violent incidents in a medium secure unit: Characteristics of persistent perpetrators of violence. The Journal of Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology, 15, 293-302.

Hales, H. and Gudjonsson, G. H. (2004). Effect of ethnic differences on the use of PRN (as required) medication on an inner London medium secure unit. The Journal of Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology, 15, 303-313.

Kassin, S.M. and Gudjonsson, G. H. (2004). The Psychology of Confessions. A Review of the Literature and Issues. Psychological Science in the Public Interest, 5, 33-67.

Carlin, P. and Gudjonsson, G. H. (2005). Percutory delusions and attributions for real negative events: a study in a forensic sample. The Journal of Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology, 16, 139-148.

Young, S., Gudjonsson, G. H. and Needham-Bennett, H. (2005). Multi-agency public protection panels for dangerous offenders: One London forensic team’s experience. Journal of Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology, 16, 312-327.

Young, S. and Gudjonsson, G. H. (2005). Neuropsychological correlates of the YAQ-S and YAQ-I self-and informant reported ADHD symptomatology, emotional and social problems and delinquent behaviour. British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 44, 47-57.

Main, N. and Gudjonsson, G. H. (2005). Investigation into the factors that influence discharge related anxiety in medium secure unit patients. The Journal of Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology, 16, 277-293.

Carlin, P., Gudjonsson, G. H., and Yates, M. (2005). Patient satisfaction with services in medium secure units. The Journal of Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology, 16, 714-728.

Walker, J. S. and Gudjonsson, G. H. (2006). The Maudsley Violence Questionnaire: Relationship to personality and self-reported offending. Personality and Individual Differences, 40, 795-806.

Sigurdsson, J.F., Gudjonsson, G. H., Bragason, A. V., Kristjansdottir, E., and Sigfusdottir, I. D. (2006). The role of violent cognition in the relationship between personality and the involvement in violent films and computer games. Personality and Individual Differences, 41, 381-392.

Main, N. and Gudjonsson, G. H. (2006). An investigation into the factors that are associated with non-compliance in medium secure units. The Journal of Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology, 17, 181-191.

Levy, S., and Gudjonsson, G.H. (2006). The Relationship between paranoid delusions and compliance. The Journal of Forensic Psychiatry & Psychology, 17, 563-576.
SourceGisli Gudjonsson's CV
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