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DRUG LORDS. BLACK WIDOWS. CONTRACT KILLERS. MASS MURDERERS. PSYCHOPATHS. EVIL GENIUSES. No one gets closer to Australia’s craziest characters than Tim ‘Doc’ Watson-Munro, a criminal psychologist with 40 years’ experience assessing the mad, bad and dangerous. Tim started his career in the country’s toughest jail – ‘a shrink in the clink’ – and has assessed over 30,000 criminals to become a pioneer in the world’s understanding of evil in our society. But it came at a cost. Tim’s appetite for knowledge about the dark side of humanity mutated. He spiralled into depression, addiction and mental collapse. The ‘Doc’ became the patient. Now, in a series of thrilling, chilling, amazing true tales from a life at the coalface of gaols and the justice system, Tim takes us deep into the minds behind Australia’s most notorious crimes. Lock up and look out … A Shrink in the Clink is a real-life journey into the shadows.

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Criminal psychologist 'Doc' Tim Watson-Munro spent his formative years in Sydney and San Francisco. Educated at Sydney University, Tim rose to prominence as a pioneering prison psychologist at Parramatta Gaol. During the 1980s and 90s he gave expert evidence in some of the country's most notorious court cases and appeared regularly in the media while chairing the Forensic College of the Australian Psychological Society. After succumbing to illness and addiction, Tim was deregistered in June 2000, but returned to practise in 2004. Today he operates thriving offices in Sydney and Melbourne and is father to five children. Tim Watson-Munro is a consultant psychologist who has been practising in Melbourne and Sydney since 1981. Tim rose to prominence as a pioneering prison psychologist at Parramatta Gaol and is involved in the assessment and treatment of individuals in all jurisdictions both civil and criminal. Tim is the author of two books inspired by his work, Dancing with Demons and A Shrink in the Clink. Tim also has considerable expertise in the treatment of Substance Misuse Disorders inclusive of alcohol and drug abuse.

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