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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- Dr C Garrett
- 27-06-24
Witty & moving. Captivated me from start to finish.
Equal parts witty & profound, great storytelling. Lots in here that I identified with as someone who works in mental health in the NHS. Felt like the book was like a little companion to me whilst it lasted. Didn’t want it to end!!
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- Anonymous User
- 07-08-24
A warm, insightful gem of a book.
A warm , insightful book about psychiatry and mental illness. At times heartbreaking but also filled with gentle humour and compassion. Beautifully read by the author. I loved it.
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- G
- 07-06-24
Excellent listen
Excellent listen, couldn’t turn it off. Engaging from start to finish 10/10. Relatable in so many ways, certainly an interesting profession.
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- Alex Gill
- 20-06-24
Funny, frightening, informative. A must-read.
The narration is spot on (unsurprisingly) the stories of each patient are remarkable and the sadness, hope and humour of the author make for a book much superior to “This Is Going To Hurt”.
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- Amazon Customer
- 03-06-24
Fabulous
So well written and read. Took me back to the bittersweet days of working on a mental health ward.
Made me laugh out loud in parts. Would highly recommend
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- Andrew
- 27-05-24
Witty, entertaining and irreverent!
I couldn’t stop listening to this and cannot wait for the next book by the author!
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- Anonymous User
- 09-10-24
Great listen
Enjoyed the story , well narrated.
Good insight into the daily life of a psychiatrist.
Showing the human side of a difficult branch of medicine.
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- Christopher O'Donnell
- 15-01-25
Heartwarming and honest
Love Benjis delivery and honesty in his telling of what it’s like to work in the NHS
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- Anonymous User
- 20-05-24
Honest, Funny & Eye opening
Well read & interesting. Highly recommended.
Some disturbing tales about lack of solutions lack of resources & a broken system. Some stories of success, improvements & good luck.
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- Very good read
- 26-05-24
Amazing
Great read, really interesting yet funny and sad.. Benji sounds like a fantastic doctor .. great read .. thank you .. please write some more
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