You Don't Have to Be Mad to Work Here
A Psychiatrist’s Life
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Benji Waterhouse
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Benji Waterhouse
About this listen
Brought to you by Penguin.
A woman with bipolar flies from America in a wedding dress to marry Harry Styles.
A lorry driver with schizophrenia believes he’s got a cure for coronavirus.
A depressed psychiatrist hides his profession from his GP due to stigma.
Most of the characters in this book are his patients. Some of them are his family. One of them is him.
Unlocking the doors to the psych ward, NHS psychiatrist Dr Benji Waterhouse provides a fly-on-the-padded-wall account of medicine’s most mysterious and controversial speciality.
Why would anyone in their right mind choose to be a psychiatrist? Are the solutions to people’s messy lives really within medical school textbooks? And how can vulnerable patients receive the care they need when psychiatry lacks staff, hospital beds and any actual cures?
Humane, hilarious and heart-breaking, You Don’t Have to Be Mad to Work Here is an enlightening and darkly comic medical memoir - from both sides of the doctor’s desk.
This is the perfect read for fans of This Is Going to Hurt, Unnatural Causes and The Prison Doctor.
A humane, hilarious and heart-breaking window into the world of psychiatry from ‘the Adam Kay of mental healthcare’ (THE TIMES)
'Very funny and deeply sympathetic. Really excellent' HENRY MARSH
'This is honestly my dream book. Both fascinating and bleakly funny' FERN BRADY
‘Honest, funny, saddening and uplifting all rolled into one’ JO BRAND
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- ConstantReader
- 24-08-2024
Witty and compassionate
Accurately portrayed and compassionate account of working at the coal face of mental health services . Highly recommend
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- Anonymous User
- 09-11-2024
Very funny
Love the dry humour and delivery, compassionate and illuminating insight into a flawed system with all trying to keep their heads above water.
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- Friendly animals
- 11-11-2024
fantastic, funny, insightful
this was such a fantastic listen. it's the best book I've come across in ages. Benji reports from the coalface of NHS psyc, sharing experiences and giving background explanations that few people know about. I absolutely loved the humour but I also loved that it was done in a compassionate way that wasn't judgey about clients, yet laughed about the surreal ridiculousness of some occurrences. it gave insight into the world of an NHS psyc, into his clients' worlds, and courageously, Benji shared a lot about his personal world. this last part - sharing about his personal world and acknowledging that we all have our traumas and dysfunctions and challenges - is an important part of what psychiatry will hopefully start to become. less of the well vs the unwell/us vs them and more of I'm doing better on the continuum and I can help you, but I respect you and don't need to pretend to be perfect or to patronise you. Benji, if you read this, you're a legend and a groundbreaker. thank you
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