For Roy Porter , once `` the doyen '' of medical history , the often violent and invasive psychiatric interventions developed during the 1930s and 1940s are indicative of both the well-intentioned desire of psychiatrists to find some medical means of alleviating the suffering of the vast number of patients then in psychiatric hospitals and also the relative lack of social power of those same patients to resist the increasingly radical and even reckless interventions of asylum doctors .
Also , those same patients had little power to resist the increasingly radical and even reckless interventions of asylum doctors .