Minutus

It is judgemental to assume that explicit communication which is
clarifying a fact pattern is in consequence accusatory and
humiliating. That point of view infers that the physician asking
the questions is somehow empowered to control the affects on the
pt. That's absurd and at variance with our paradigm. I submit the
argument that control is an illusion.

> It is judgemental to assume that explicit communication which is

Absolutely! "Nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission."
(Eleanor Roosevelt)

I've seen quite a few instances where practitioners have mistaken colluding
with the patient's delusion for compassion - an easy enough trap to fall
into, given the overweening "political correctness" of our times which often
veers into societal sanction of victim mentality. Not healthy. Genuine
compassion witnesses "poor me" with love, but does *not* buy into it. The
minute we buy into it, we are coming from our own "poor me" and are no
longer unprejudiced observers.

Regards
Wendy