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.
**THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**
Most of the psychiatric cases in this book are Benji’s 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?
This is an eye-opening medical memoir – from both sides of the doctor’s desk. 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)
‘This is honestly my dream book… Fascinating’ FERN BRADY
‘Fearlessly honest, funny and uplifting’ JO BRAND
‘Very funny and deeply sympathetic. Really excellent’ HENRY MARSH
©2024 Benji Waterhouse (P) 2024 Penguin Audio
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- LaurieG.
- 08-03-2025
The realism
Having worked in many mental health units, I identified with so much of this book. Black humour is how we get by. My husband didn’t find it as amusing as I did.
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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
- 01-06-2025
One of my favourites
Incredibly humane memoir telling the story of the mental health system in the UK - one of the best books I've read in a long while. Full of belly laughs while never losing sight of the broader personal issues facing his patients, nor the sobering reality of systemic failures. It feels very true to life but written in a very readable way. 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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- Anonymous User
- 22-01-2025
A good read
Always good to hear about not only the good or only the bad. Nice to know that others have ups and downs just the same. Helps when the author is funny and witty too.
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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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- JOSSIE J
- 14-04-2025
Amazing !
Really good listening, completed in one day couldn’t stop . It really sang home to me and no doubt any other health care worker .
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