BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.1.1//EN TZID:Europe/London X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London BEGIN:VEVENT UID:23011@xyzbrighton.com DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250514T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250514T213000 DTSTAMP:20250108T091507Z URL:https://xyzbrighton.com/events/dr-benji-waterhouse-book-tour-2025/ SUMMARY:Dr Benji Waterhouse - Book Tour 2025 DESCRIPTION:NHS psychiatrist\, award-winning comedian and Sunday Times best -selling author of ‘You Don’t Have To Be Mad To Work Here’\, Dr Benj i Waterhouse is going on his first book tour! ‘You Don’t Have To Be Ma d To Work Here’\, was released via Vintage/Penguin in May to much critic al acclaim. The tour takes in 10 dates and will be at Edinburgh's Traverse Theatre on 17th May 2025.\n\n\n\n\n“The response to my book has been ve ry surreal. From being No.2 in The Sunday Times best-seller list to being enjoyed by natural treasures like Jo Brand. But most special has been the response from patients who have said things like “Dr Waterhouse should y ou really be using full names\, date of births and NHS numbers?” Joking aside\, it’s been incredible and I can’t wait to connect with readers in person on my first tour. The show will be a combination of stand-up\, s torytelling and chapter readings followed by a Q&\;A which is probably your best chance to speak to an NHS psychiatrist\, without the 12-month wa iting list”. DR BENJI\n\nCombining his stand-up skills\, storytelling a nd anecdotal chapter readings\, Dr Benji unlocks the doors to the psych wa rd and answers life’s big questions. What’s the secret to happiness? What’s the best way to escape from a psychiatric hospital? And what is t he difference between a psychiatrist\, a psychologist and a psychic?\n\nA woman in a wedding dress arrives at the hospital looking for Harry Styles. \nA lorry driver with schizophrenia believes he’s got a cure for coronav irus.\nA depressed man hides his profession from his GP due to stigma.\n\n Most of the psychiatric cases in his book are his patients. Some of them a re family. One of them is him. 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 t he care they need when psychiatry lacks staff\, hospital beds and any actu al cures? ‘You Don’t Have to Be Mad to Work Here’explores these comp licated questions from both sides of the doctor’s desk.\n\n \;\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://xyzbrighton.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/ 12/image001-1.jpg CATEGORIES:Comedy LOCATION:BRIGHTON – The Old Market\, 11A Upper Market St\, Brighton\, Br ighton and Hove\, Hove \, Brighton and Hove\, England\, BN3 1AS\, Sussex\, United Kingdom GEO:50.82503;-0.157086 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS= 11A Upper Market St\, Brig hton\, Brighton and Hove\, Hove \, Brighton and Hove\, England\, BN3 1AS\, Sussex\, United Kingdom;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=BRIGHTON – The Old M arket:geo:50.82503,-0.157086 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250330T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR