Nancy 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.

• Introduction ; 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 lives

This 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.

Nancy 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.

• Introduction ; 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 lives

This 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.

Nancy 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.

• Introduction ; 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 lives

This 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.