A poll of the general public has shown that 64% of those polled believe that mentally ill people who commit minor offences that do not pose a threat to others should not be given custodial sentences. Instead treatment should be combined with community service. The poll comes in the wake of the Justice Minister's call for reform in this area.
A study in Psychological Medicine journal refutes previously held ideas that intense religious experiences will result in serious mental problems. The evidence points to the fact that even the experience of brief pyschosis will be limited. 
A new report from the World Health Organization (WHO), following a survey, shows that seriously ill people earn up to a third less than their healthy counterparts. The research discussed in the British Journal of Psychiatry explains that unlike previous surveys that targeted high income countries, the data included in this one was also from low and middle income countries
