Elie Godsi

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Elie Godsi is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist, therapist and author. The son of Sudanese and Israeli parents, he was born in Nigeria where he spent the first few years of his life before coming to live in Britain as a young child. Over the course of his career he has worked extensively with violent men and women as well as their victims. He has spent many years working in community based mental health and forensic services, in various hospitals and prisons including Rampton Maximum Secure Hospital and with young offenders in residential units. He was for ten years the head of Clinical Psychology in a Community Forensic Mental Health Team based in Nottingham. During much of that time he was a core member of the Nottinghamshire Multi Agency Public Protection Panel (MAPPP), a multi-agency forum tasked with managing the risks posed by the most dangerous offenders living in the community.

Elie has appeared in numerous television and radio documentaries, contributed as an expert on television and radio news and debates and has had articles published in national newspapers and magazines. His main areas of interest concern stress and well-being, cross-cultural mental health as well as all forms of violence and the impact this has on victims. He is also particularly interested in the relationship between well-being and our connection to Nature, and the importance of this for children’s healthy development.

For many years he lectured on the Clinical Psychology doctorate courses at the Universities of Leicester, Sheffield and Staffordshire. He has presented numerous papers on the long-term effects of child abuse and other forms of violence and has published articles and two books on the relationship between child abuse, violence and mental health. His second book, Violence and Society – Making Sense of Madness and Badness was published in 2004 by PCCS books.

Elie currently works as a freelance expert witness, carrying out assessments for Civil, Family and Criminal Justice courts. He has extensive nation-wide experience in the psychological assessment and treatment of offenders and their victims as well as in the assessment of offending risk. He has particular expertise in the assessment and treatment of all forms of traumatic stress responses including those arising from all forms of violence including child abuse and neglect..