"We called this report ‘Completing the Revolution’ because there is unfinished business dating from the closing of the asylums that began in the early 1960s..... We make policy recommendations across primary and secondary care and focus on children, young people, older people, military veterans and those from BME communities. All are framed from the perspective of needing to complete this revolution for the most vulnerable in society."

'Mental health is a public health issue. Mental illness is the largest single source of burden of disease in the UK. No other health condition matches mental illness in the combined extent of prevalence, persistence and breadth of impact. Mental illness is consistently associated with deprivation, low income, unemployment, poor education, poorer physical health and increased health-risk behaviour.' (RCPsych Position Statement PS4/2010)

No health without mental health - The new strategy for mental health in England.
This Briefing summarises the strategy’s six objectives and describes how progress will be measured. It also outlines further work to support implementation, which will be taken forward over the next year and beyond.

Allen Frances, lead editor of the fourth edition of the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (universally known as the DSM-IV), says, "There is no definition of a mental disorder. It's bullshit. I mean, you just can't define it. These concepts are virtually impossible to define precisely with bright lines at the boundaries." This article on the creation of the next version of the manual, DSM-5, was published in the Wired online magazine. See the original article here.