Abstract

I begin my comments with a first-person narrative. I know Octavio, Erotildes, and Nuria from the time I worked at the Institute of Psychiatry and was very close to the field of mental health. They are people whose work I admire and appreciate. I comment on this text from the point of view of someone who has never worked directly in mental health assistance and whose knowledge about severe mental illness therapy has occurred mostly from a third-person perspective. My comments are based on parallels with situations and experiences that I have been studying lately.First of all, I want to say that I fully agree with the authors’ argument that “experiences and narratives about illness, treatment, and recovery are...