DeMente embodies a reality, a stigma, pathologies which, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO), one in four people suffered, suffer or will suffer at some point in their lives. The almost carceral confinement of "demented" people in the past, the accumulation of sick people, the total and partial mechanical restraints, as well as chemical restraints (antipsychotics and other drugs), the suicides ("When the madman entered the asylum, he could only wait for death"), the exploitation of the sick, "the warehouses of human flesh"?