It is a process inevitably magnified in the operating theatre, where the patient is silent and still, to all intents absent, and where their descent into unconsciousness is routinely accompanied by the sounds of the music being cranked up (one prominent Australian surgeon is said to favour heavy metal), and conversation.
From the children and women she would comfort "after witnessing incidents like the strangulation of their mother into unconsciousness," to the police, criminal justice department and state officials, to social service and advocacy organizations, all would agree to engage her relentless quest to end domestic violence.
All patients, or in case of unconsciousness, their closest relatives, signed a written informed consent.
All patients or, in the case of unconsciousness, their closest relative signed a written informed consent form.
From the patients' perspective, the results may reflect their difficulties in expressing ambivalence in the consultation or unconsciousness of their ambivalence before and during the consultation, which is underlined by the fact that the patients expressed that they were much more conscious of their ambivalence in the weeks after the consultation.
After their two-year-old daughter had watched Sanchez Williams beating Casey Brittle into unconsciousness in their living room, she was left alone with her dying mother for two hours.
Then most of them drifted back into apparent unconsciousness, without their brain's neocortex turning on.
He believed that just like the psychoanalysts to deal with the unconsciousness of their patients, the healing spells of Cuna shamans reproduce a certain "deep structure" of local mythological systems; thereby, the ritual has some magical "symbolic efficacy" (Lévi-Strauss 1958, p. 205 226).
