As the dominant social system sinks everywhere, on a global scale, into an all-encompassing and relentlessly increasing crisis, with the rapid impoverishment of the majority of the population, with hunger, war slaughter, nationalisms, racisms, and far-right formations taking hold in more and more countries, and with waves of migration and refugees numbering in the millions attempting to cross borders that are becoming increasingly closed everywhere, the consequences of these social conditions on the mental health (let alone on the very lives) of the broad popular classes serve to confirm, in contrast to the one-sidedness of biological reductionism, the long-established social causality, the diverse and crucial role it plays in most mental health problems.

A society cannot be free to the extent that the individuals labeled as "mentally ill," just like refugees and all the excluded, are not also truly free. Truly free means enjoying full rights – that is, rights that do not remain mere declarations, but are materially, socially, relationally, institutionally, and legislatively supported.

Here, in the matter of social space for the mentally ill, for the crazy, for the refugee and the migrant, for the Roma, for every different individual, for every outcast of globalization, the social condition that makes the freedom of each one a prerequisite for the freedom of every other assumes its full significance and necessity.