A life in schizophrenic balance can also be a good life - one in which they establish relationships with other people and in which they gain access to various elementary necessities, such as food, a bath, a bed etc. We can create this life in schizophrenic balance for many of these patients if we become involved. If we treat them. No country yet has precise figures of the number of people suffering from schizophrenia who are homeless, but Preben Brandt fears that the total is rising and that it is a general phenomenon in the western world. In all parts of our society we are becoming steadily more efficient.
Psychiatry is no exception.
When they are out of the system, they are out of the statistics. They no longer exist - at least not until other people complain violently enough to the politicians about the disturbance and aggression caused by the homeless in public places.