The term "psychiatric reform" is one of the most controversial in terms of the diametrically opposed meanings and contents it expresses. Was there ever any real reform of the mental health service system, its culture, and practice, or was the result of approximately 30 years of co-funded programs merely a neo-institutional formation that reproduced the unchanged function of the traditional psychiatric circuit? Today, the interaction of an externally imposed "reform," prompted by the "Leros problem," with the goals, visions, and practices of those seeking paths "beyond and outside" the dominant psychiatric paradigm, seems for new mental health professionals, as well as directly concerned individuals with psychiatric experience, and for society as a whole, as if it is beyond their ability to see, touch, and "stand" on this experience—the searches, the difficulties, the unattained goals—as material for reflection on the form and contents of an emancipatory practice in the field of mental health, in the present and the coming future. Describing his experience of exile as an irrevocable persecution as far away as possible, with no return, a patient in Leros once said: "Dafni, Leros, Turkey." Something similar could symbolize the journey from Dromokaiteio, which is one of the main pillars of institutional psychiatry, to Leros, where for a moment a ray of light shone, that an "other," alternative psychiatry is possible, and from there to Dafni, the other pillar of institutional psychiatry, which grounds us in a reality where nothing had essentially changed, except perhaps the external image of institutional repression.