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Nowadays more than ever, when psychiatry comes under the umbrella of mental health, it takes part in a soft, liquid, and flexible “sequestration” of individuals, placing them in networks of conformation. “New” psychiatry is no longer aimed at recovery, as maintenance is regarded as sufficient. Alongside this social management of deviance, psycho-rehabilitation techniques are being developed that teach individuals to better manage themselves, by freely consenting to their normalization. There is no need to treat when you can monitor and re-educate softly, freely, and in an egalitarian manner. But the limits of these systems of evaluation, normalization, and subjection emerge in our clinical practices and leave us with some hope for the subject.