High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! There is no consensus on the treatment of schizophrenia although criteria for the remission of symptoms were suggested in 2006. Management of symptoms and improving function may be more achievable than a cure. A recovery model is increasingly adopted, emphasizing hope, empowerment and social inclusion.?Odysseus labours? is a handbook for friends and families to provide services, support and rehabilitation for people with serious mental illness including schizophrenia, and was written by Dr Paul Kauffman and Rupert Gerritsen in 2008. It is available free on www.mhf.org.au. Antipsychotics have been a mainstay of therapy since the introduction of chlorpromazine in the mid 1950s, which revolutionized treatment. Side effects (some harmful or fatal) have attracted controversy. Older concerns over sedation, tardive dyskinesia and neuroleptic malignant syndrome have been largely replaced with those of drug-related obesity and diabetes.