The article intends to reanimate a matter that was a center piece on the Psychiatric Reform debates on the decades of 1960s and 1970s: alternatives to the "exclusion". After reviewing the psychiatric assistance foundations, which were historically oriented by the asylum standard, the authors reappraise two experiments that took place during Italian Psychiatric Reform and have been considered a model: Reggio Emilia and Perugia. As far as assistance paradigm moves from asylum to territory, what obstacles we have to confront to assure that the post-asylum assistance do not get sustained by "exclusion"?
psychiatric reform; the object of the assistance; the exclusion