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The article reflects on clinical listening from a participatory and evaluative intervention research on mental health care practices in the primary health care network in the metropolitan region of the state of Rio Grande do Sul. Based on the cartographic method, the study was developed with stakeholders, who gathered users, workers and managers of the psychosocial care network of each of the six participating municipalities. The narratives extracted from daily scenes of one of the cities surveyed are presented with the purpose of highlighting the difficulties that both workers and the community have in accepting the psychic sufferings expressed in psychotic discursiveness. In the end, it is pointed out how much the clinic of psychiatric reform would have to learn from the deviant experiments that madness and participatory research can offer when operated under an ethic of difference. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]