You Don't Have to Be Mad to Work Here: A Psychiatrist’s Life
Hardback Published on: 16/05/2024
Price: £18.99
Synopsis
Humane, hilarious and heart-breaking - an enlightening and darkly comic window into the world of psychiatry
A woman in a wedding dress arrives at the hospital looking for Harry Styles.
A lorry driver with schizophrenia believes he’s got a cure for coronavirus.
A depressed man hides his profession from his GP due to stigma.
Most of the psychiatric cases in this book are his patients. Some of them are 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?
You Don’t Have to Be Mad to Work Here explores these complicated questions 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.
Publisher information
- Publisher: Vintage Publishing
- ISBN: 9781787333178
- Number of pages: 336
- Dimensions: 222 x 141 x 29 mm
- Weight: 443g
- Languages: English
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Eye opening
I rarely read non fiction, the subject has to really appeal to me and the cover and blurb on this really grabbed me as I find mental health fascinating and... READ MORE
Powerful and painfully "entertaining" insight into NHS mental health services
Dr Benji (actually Benjamin but not Ben please!) Waterhouse tells the tale of his time as an NHS psychiatrist from his start in the specialty. After 6 yea... READ MORE
Entertaining, eye opening and heart breaking
You Don’t Have to Be Mad to Work Here by Dr Benji Waterhouse, is an account of his experiences, during training to become an NHS Consultant Psychiatrist. I... READ MORE
Funny, saddening, hopeful
“You Don’t Have To Be Mad To Work Here” is a memoir from Dr Benji Waterhouse, an NHS psychiatrist, about his training and work in this often misunderstood ... READ MORE
a good glimpse into mental health care in the NHS
I hadn't realised until I finished this book that the author is also a stand up comedian, but this shines through in the, often black, humour that elevates... READ MORE
Thought-provoking!
‘You Don’t Have To Be Mad To Work Here’ is a ‘fly-on-the-padded-wall’ account of a psychiatrist’s life as the author chooses to work in the field of psychi... READ MORE
I cannot recommend this book highly enough
You Don't Have to Be Mad to Work Here is an account of day-to-day life as an NHS psychiatrist - medical doctors who specialise in the diagnosis and treatme... READ MORE
Funny, insightful and honest - and very readable.
Having worked in the NHS I am drawn to medical memoirs and this one is brilliant. Open, honest and eminently readable, we follow Dr Waterhouse into his cho... READ MORE
important read
Not a fan of the humor on this book but is a good one to read anout the state of the NHS and the insight about mental health professionals. Psychiatrists d... READ MORE
Excellent book of the chaos of learning to be a psychiatrist
This is Benji’s story of how he survived his introduction to being a psychiatrist. With touching and some heartbreaking stories, as well as some which made... READ MORE
Amusing but thought provoking too.
Dr Benji Waterhouse is a psychiatrist & this book follows some of his career from the start of his career as a junior doctor. Although it might be said tha... READ MORE
Amazing
I loved this book. I worked for the NHS as a nursing assistant on mental health awards and also suffer with mental health so I related to this book so much... READ MORE
Cannot recommend highly enough
A brilliant insight and honest reflection of the joy and the despair of working in the NHS Mental Health services. This heartwarming, witty, memoir of a ps... READ MORE
A heartbreakingly joyful book
What an absolutely heart-breaking joy of a book. I laughed and cried all the way through and hope that Benji writes more.
This is the story of Benji Wat... READ MORE
An illuminating read
An interesting and humorous account of the working life of a psychiatrist. I loved the anecdotes and descriptions of the various patients.
An illuminating... READ MORE
Thought provoking!
A perceptive read.
The book is written by Benji he’s a psychiatrist in the down trodden NHS , the book charts his career from his very first day as psy... READ MORE
An excellent read
Brilliantly written, heartfelt, funny and very relatable.
Just Brilliant!
I loved this book, entertaining & informative from start to finish. Thought provoking but with humour carrying it along. First book I have read on this top... READ MORE
An interesting Curate's Egg of a book.
I have no idea how to be fair to this book as I disliked the style but garnered all sorts of useful information about the reality of what is truly not "nor... READ MORE
Couldn't put it down!
So insightful into the world of mental health and particularly the world of the psychiatrists who work in the NHS. I've read many books from the POV of the... READ MORE
Handled with care and comedy
An awesome and easy read on a difficult topic. Benji writes with raw honesty, but from the heart and with compassion. It is astonishing that anyone would... READ MORE
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