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This article describes changes in the common ideals and collective expectations that psychosocial rehabilitation and recovery symbolize, changes by means of which the status of the psychiatric or neurological patient has shifted to that of a moral partner. Through this shift, the aim is to highlight what can be called individualistic attitudes toward contingency, adversity, or negativity. These attitudes consist of certain ways of acting on what one undergoes. It is therefore a question of understanding how social normativity and therapeutic normativity are intertwined: in other words, how our ideas of the human being in society—the social spirit—and our ideas of therapy, the symptom, and healing—the spirit of care—have been transformed in an interdependent manner.