You may have already heard about the new schizophrenia report, The Abandoned Illness which is published today. Still, I think this is too big an issue to not publicise it further. Although I know you're probably not studying straight psychology, serious mental illness is an issue that informs so many other areas of the social sciences. That's what makes the report and debate well worth an in depth look.
Rethink Mental Illness (RMI) is a charity launched to support people with and change attitudes to mental illness in the UK. They commissioned the report and the Schizophrenia Commission gathered the data and wrote it. It broadly covers within its 88 pages what is going wrong, what needs fixing and how it can be paid for.
There's a lot in there, but it's extremely readable.
If you'd like some more background details I'd have a look here for a BBC interview with a spokesman from the RMI or you can find the Guardian's reporting of the issue here.
The full report on the current state of schizophrenia provision in the UK is available in full from here.
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