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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Nancy Nyquist PotterPublisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.10cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.341kg ISBN: 9780198530213ISBN 10: 0198530218 Pages: 216 Publication Date: 25 June 2009 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsIntroduction ; 1. Identity disturbance and the self ; 2. The problem with too much anger ; 3. Rocky relationships ; 4. Impulsivity, spontaneity and deliberation ; 5. Self-injurious behavior ; 6. What's wrong with being manipulative ; 7. The trustworthy clinician ; 8. Communicative ethics and the virtue of giving uptake ; 9. Situating empathy in our livesReviewsThis slim, elegantly written volume by Nancy Nyquist Potter is by far the most clinically relevant and practical of the several such books I have reviewed...Potter's well-written volume provides solid philosophical grounding and considerable clinical guidance for our best efforts to help this too-often-maligned group of fellow human beings. John Edward Ruark, American Psychological Association ...Nancy Potter has produced an incisive and thoughtful analysis of one of the ethically and clinically troubling problems of psychiatry...Mapping the Edges and In-between is a fine example of careful philosophical analysis. Tony O'Brien, University of Aukland Author InformationNancy Nyquist Potter is a professor of philosophy at the University of Louisville and a core faculty member of the university's Interdisciplinary M.A. in Bioethics and Medical Humanities. Her research ranges from virtue ethics to philosophies of peace and to mental health and illness. She has had considerable volunteer clinical experience with people in crisis, sex offenders, and people who come to hospital in need of psychiatric care. She also works in the local community to advance medical ethics. Nancy Potter is the author of the monograph 'How Can I Be Trusted?' and two edited anthologies. She is the president of the Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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