“…However, more than a decade after the approval of the National Psychiatric Reform Law, the relationship between society and the person in psychic suffering still appears to be rooted in socio-cultural aspects that were constructed during the asylum period and that are marked by the stereotypes of danger, irrationality, and unpredictability, the idea of confi nement, and notions associated with the outdated biomedical paradigm. As a result, people in psychic suffering are also recurrently targets of prejudice, stigmatization, and the most severe forms of social exclusion (Corrigan, Markowitz, Watson, Rowan, & Kubiak, 2003;Costa, Jorge, Coutinho, Costa, & Holanda, 2016;Maciel, Barros, Camino, & Melo, 2011).…”