Good morning everyone and happy Saturday! I thought I’d start a challenge today featuring books that I’ve bought after reading and loving another book.
I recently read and reviewed You Don’t Have To Be Mad To Work Here by Dr Benji Waterhouse which you can read on my grid. I found it fascinating to learn more about psychiatry and the mental health problems people can have.
Therefore when I saw The Devil You Know: Encounters In Forensic Psychiatry by Dr Gwen Adshead and Eileen Horne at the shop I was immediately intrigued. This book follows Dr Gwen Adshead as she treats criminals in her role as a forensic psychiatrist and discusses whether rehabilitation rather than revenge would be better.
It sounds fascinating and I’m very excited to read it soon.
I’ve tagged a few people on Instagram who might want to join in but, as always, no pressure.
What are your Saturday plans?
You Don’t Have To Be Mad To Work Here by Dr Benji Waterhouse
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 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.
The Devil You Know: Encounters In Forensic Psychiatry by Dr Gwen Adshead & Eileen Horne
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
A SUNDAY TIMES, NEW STATESMAN & IRISH TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR
SHORTLISTED FOR THE CRIME WRITERS ASSOCIATION GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION
A perspective-shattering work into the minds of violent criminals that reveals profound consequences for human nature and society at large.
Dr Gwen Adshead is one of Britain’s leading forensic psychiatrists. She treats serial killers, arsonists, stalkers, gang members and other individuals who are usually labelled ‘monsters’. Whatever their crime, she listens to their stories and helps them to better understand their terrible acts of violence. Here Adshead invites the reader to step with her into the room to meet twelve patients and discover how minds can change. These men and women are revealed in all their complexity and shared humanity. Their stories make a powerful case for rehabilitation over revenge, compassion over condemnation. The Devil You Know will challenge everything you thought you knew about human nature.
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