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You Don't Have to Be Mad to Work Here
- A Psychiatrist’s Life
- Narrated by: Benji Waterhouse
- Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
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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.
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- Anonymous User
- 21-05-24
Brilliant
Funny, honest and insightful. Gave great insight into life as an nhs worker in an honest and funny account.
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- elizsheba
- 23-05-24
Thank you , doctor
Dear Colleague,
As an NHS doctor myself (though of another specialty), I thoroughly enjoyed your book. Many aspects were painfully recognizable, which made it all the more engaging.
Despite all the misery and despair described, I greatly admired your ability to maintain humor, kindness, and compassion towards a very complex group of patients.
I was particularly moved to tears by the conversations with your parents. Unfortunately, I have not reached that level of self-understanding and acceptance with my own parents in time, when I did they were already gone. I envy you for having had the time, a good psychoanalyst, and the personal wisdom and courage to achieve that. Hopefully, your story will help others to do it earlier.
But then Dostoevsky said - time is only an idea, so hopefully if we are late, we still can say things to those who already gone from its dimension.
Thank you for your book.
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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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- Matthew D.
- 24-05-24
Good, but not quite what I was expecting
I pre-ordered this book after hearing the author on the radio talking about it. I enjoyed the book it is well written and read but I think it would have benefitted from expanding on some of the failures of the current approach in psychology and potential improvements. The book ended up feeling like a lot of somewhat connected short stories without a strong narrative.
It felt like the author was trying to emulate Adam Kay’s ‘This is going to hurt’ but not doing quite as good a job. That being said it is still an interesting and enjoyable listen.
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- Darragh Murphy
- 24-05-24
This what a book should be
This book was both funny and sad, it was easy listening and difficult to hear, I thoroughly every minute of it amd would recommend to all. Thank you to the author for sharing this story.
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- Amazon Customer
- 20-05-24
Empathetic
Loved this, funny honesty at its best listened in two sittings. Narration is excellent too
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- Tony
- 25-05-24
Brilliantly written, delightfully amusing, beautifully read and wide eye opening!!
An outstanding book on every level. Opens up the dysfunctional world of mental health services in wonderfully human and a very amusing way. Benji Waterhouse has superb balance and perfect pitch in his writing!
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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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- 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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- Megan
- 21-05-24
A passive aggressive diatribe against the NHS in the form of weak humour
I had been drawn to this book by a favourable review in a UK newspaper. As it was still unavailable at that time to download, I first listened to Ben Cave’s book which is also about a psychiatrist’s experiences at psychiatry. I found that book genuinely funny. Perhaps it is as a result of listening to that book that I found this one so disappointing. Perhaps some people might find his style of humour amusing but i found that the more I listened to it the more I detected a theme - dissatisfaction with the NHS and cynicism about society, cloaked in weak jokes. I found myself disliking the person telling the stories more and more until I couldn’t bear it any longer. He can keep the fatuous blues music between each anecdote also.
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