0 to take away someone's confidence and feeling of being in control of their life:
This is because innovation in techniques of discipline (for example, control of labour) and production will empower some agents and disempower others.
A social drama that enhances the power of one group may at the same time disempower others; while it gratifies some, it terrorizes others.
In many cases the researchers will then need to ask how the categories chosen bias the research, and empower or disempower the groups involved.
Deliberative arrangements potentially undermine clientelism but also disempower representative institutions.
Thus, we have a responsibility toward vulnerable patients to ensure that we do not disempower them through our own negativities.
The self-development strategy can as easily disempower as empower.
Nevertheless, the boundaries within can be used for anti-democratic ends, can be used to exclude women, the young, or landless people from the franchise, to disempower the inconvenient.
The authors explore the multiple dimensions of disempowerment and empowerment and show how ideology, policy and practice all serve to disempower people with severe mental distress.
