For many worker participants, this involved being benevolent towards patients, acting virtuously towards them, and softening the coercive stick inherent in the CTO process through attempts to empathize with patients' experience.
It's the voice of the teacher or the analyst or the self-restraining parent whose blank false mask of benevolent authority and patient tolerance is actually filled with attitudinizing judgment and narrowly normative limits of acceptable, admissible feelings and actions.
Neither, said Czech, was there evidence of the benevolent attitude towards his patients that Asperger and others later boasted of.
4. Benevolent dictators are benevolent.
In paternalism, the doctor holds power as a benevolent expert obliged to act in the patient's best interests while controlling the agenda and making decisions, the patient has little or no voice.
Dr. Pinel believed that the curative factor in even the most severe emotional and mental disorders was the patient's relationship with a benevolent and compassionate human being.
The placebo effect, combined with the patient's relationship with a benevolent and compassionate doctor, might well account for much of the curative properties of psychiatric medications.
Venlafaxine ER improved resilience on individual Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale items that reflect four factors (hardiness, persistence/tenacity, social support, and faith in a benevolent or meaningful world), to varying degrees in patients with PTSD.
It is overseen not by a tyrannical Nurse Ratched, but by the wise and patient Dr. Minerva, played with a benevolent glow by Viola Davis.
And when Paul went to Gina with his own troubles (and ethical transgressions), he left his benevolent authority behind and morphed into a typical patient — defensive, self-pitying and blinkered.
He believed that the patient must see their physician as a benevolent authoritarian figure with the experience and competence to recommend advice they will accept.
