Nancy Nyquist Potter
                                                                                                                           
I.      EDUCATION        

University of Minnesota, B.A. in philosophy, 1987, summa cum laude
University of Minnesota, Ph.D. in philosophy, 1994
 
Dissertation: Trustworthiness:  An Aristotelian Analysis of a Virtue            
 
II. EMPLOYMENT
 

Professor
Philosophy Department, University of Louisville, July 1, 1995-present
 

III. Selected PUBLICATIONS
 

Books:
 

Potter, Nancy. 2002. How Can I Be Trusted? A Virtue Theory of Trustworthiness. New
York and Oxford: Rowman-Littlefield Press.
Potter, Nancy, ed. 2004. Putting Peace into Practice: Evaluating Policy on Local and Global Levels. Amsterdam: Rodopi Press.
Potter, Nancy, ed. 2006. Trauma, Truth, and Reconciliation: Healing Damaged Relationships. Oxford University Press International Perspectives in Philosophy of Psychiatry.
Potter, Nancy. 2009. Mapping the Edges and the In-between: A Critical Analysis of Borderline Personality Disorder. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Press International Perspectives in Philosophy of Psychiatry. Forthcoming September 2009.
 

Chapters in books
Potter, Nancy. 2008. The problem with too much anger: A philosophical approach to understanding anger in borderline personality disordered patients. Emotion and Consciousness Series, ed. L. Charland and P. Zachar. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 53-64.
Potter, Nancy. 2005. "Liberatory Psychiatry and An Ethics of the In-Between," Ethics of the Body: Postconventional Challenges, ed. Margrit Shildrick and Roxanne Mykituik. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 113-133.
Potter, Nancy. 2004."Gender," in Oxford Companion to Philosophy of Psychiatry. Oxford University Press, ed. Jennifer Radden.
Potter, Nancy and Eileen John. 2003. "Images of Community in American Popular Culture," in Diversity and Community:  A Critical Reader, ed. Philip Alperson. Malden, Massachusetts: Blackwell Publishing, 265-288.
Potter, Nancy. 2002. "Can Prisoners Learn Victim Empathy? An Analysis of a Relapse Prevention Program in the Kentucky State Reformatory for Men", in Putting Peace into Practice: Evaluating Policy on Local and Global Levels; Philosophies of Peace special series of Value Inquiry Book Series. Amsterdam: Rodopi Press.
Potter, Nancy. 2001. "Is Refusing to Forgive a Vice?," Feminists Doing Ethics, ed. Peggy DesAutels and Joanna Waugh, New York and Oxford: Rowman-Littlefield Press, 135-150.
 

Journal Articles
Potter, Nancy Nyquist and Mian, Ali. 2009. Revitalizing Islamic rights in colonial India: Mawlana Ashraf Ali Thanawi’s Huquq al-Islam. Muslim World.
Potter, Nancy and Zachar, Peter. 2009. Personality Disorders: Moral or Medical Kinds—or Both? Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology, forthcoming.

Potter, Nancy. 2009. Narrative Selves, Relations of Trust, and Bipolar Disorder. Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology, forthcoming.

Potter, Nancy Nyquist. 2008. Off the radar: Truth-telling in psychiatry. Harvard Review of Psychiatry 16(6): 381-387. Invited article.
Potter, Nancy Nyquist and Zachar, Peter. 2008. Vice, mental disorder, and the role of underlying pathological processes. Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 15(1): 27-29.
Potter, Nancy. 2007. “Uncertain Knowledge.” Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 14(1): 19-23.
Potter, N. 2007. Querying the ‘community’ in community mental health. American Journal of Bioethics 7(11): 42-43. Invited commentary.
Potter, Nancy. 2006. “What is Manipulative Behavior Anyway?” Journal of Personality Disorders.
Potter, Nancy. 2006. Shame, violence, and perpetrators’ voices. Commentary. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 29(3): 237.
Potter, Nancy. 2005. “Is the Construct for Human Affiliation too Narrow?” Commentary. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 28 (3): 363-364.
Potter, Nancy. 2005. "Liberatory Psychiatry and An Ethics of the In-Between," Ethics of the Body: Postconventional Challenges, ed. Margrit Shildrick and Roxanne Mykituik. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 113-133.
Potter, Nancy. 2004. “Perplexing Issues in Personality Disorders.” Current Opinion in Psychiatry 17(6).
Potter, Nancy. 2004. "Gender," The Philosophy of Psychiatry: A Companion, ed. Jennifer Radden, Oxford University Press.                                                                                       
Potter, Nancy. 2004. "Can Prisoners Learn Victim Empathy? An Analysis of a Relapse Prevention Program in the Kentucky State Reformatory for Men," Putting Peace into Practice: Evaluating Policy at Local and Global Levels, ed. N. Potter, Rodopi Press.
Potter, Nancy. "Moral Tourists and World-travelers: Some Epistemological Considerations for Understanding Patients' Worlds." Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology, Sept 2003, Vol. 10, No. 3, 209-223.                                            

Potter, Nancy. "The Mean for Understanding and Connection in the Clinical Context," Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology, Sept 2003, Vol. 10, No. 3, 237-241.
Potter, Nancy. "Commodity/Body/Sign: Borderline Personality Disorder and the Signification of Self-Injurious Behavior" in Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology, March 2003, Vol. 10, No. 1, 1-16.
Potter, Nancy. "In the Spirit of Giving Uptake." in Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology, March 2003, Vol. 10, No. 1, 33-35.
Potter, Nancy. 2003. "The Politics of Fear." Journal of the Gandhi-King Society, August 2003.
Potter, Nancy. "Is There a Role for Humor in the Midst of Conflict?" Social Philosophy Today, Spring 2003.
Potter, Nancy. 2002. "Key Concepts: Feminism" in Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology,  Vol. 8, No. 1, 61-71

Potter, Nancy and Eileen John. 2002. "Images of Community in American Popular Culture," in Diversity and Community: An Interdisciplinary Reader, ed. Philip Alperson, Malden, Massachusetts: Blackwell Publishing, 265-288.

Potter, Nancy. 2001."Is Refusing to Forgive a Vice?" in Feminists Doing Ethics, ed. Peggy DesAutels and Joanne Waugh, New York and Oxford: Rowman-Littlefield Press, 135-150.
Potter, Nancy. 2000. "Giving Uptake," Social Theory and Practice, Fall 2000, 26( 3); 479-508.

Potter, Nancy. 1999."Terrorists, Hostages, Victims, and "The Crisis Team":  A "Who's Who" Puzzle," Hypatia 14 (3), p. 126-156.

Potter, Nancy. 1996. "Loopholes, Gaps, and What is Held Fast:  Democratic Epistemology and Claims to Recovered Memories," Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology (3:4); 237-254.
Potter, Nancy. 1996. "Discretionary Power, Lies, and Broken Trust:  Justification and Discomfort," Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics (17:4); 329-352.
Potter, Nancy. 1995. "The Severed Head and Existential Dread:  The Classroom as Epistemic Community and Student Survivors of Incest," Hypatia 10 (2); 69-92.

Review essays
Potter, Nancy. 2007. Biomedical Ethics: Humanist Perspectives, ed. Howard B. Radest. In: Metapsychology Book Review Site: http://mentalhelp.net/books.
Potter, Nancy. 2006. From Morality to Mental Health: Virtue and Vice in a Therapeutic Culture, by Mike Martin. Oxford University Press. In Metapsychology Book Review Site: http://mentalhelp.net/books.
Potter, Nancy. 2006. Relational Remembering: Rethinking the Memory Wars, by Sue Campbell. In Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review XLV(1), 199-201.
Potter, Nancy. Borderline Personality Disorder: A Therapist’s Guide to Taking Control, by Arthur Freeman and Gina M. Fusco. New York: Norton, 2004. In Metapsychology Book Review Site: http://mentalhelp.net/books.
Potter, Nancy. Surviving a Borderline Parent: How to Heal Your Childhood Wounds and Build Trust, Boundaries, and Self-Esteem, by Kimberlee Roth and Freda B. Friedman. Oakland, Calif: New Harbinger Publications. 2003. In Metapsychology Book Review Site: http://mentalhelp.net/books.
Potter, Nancy. 2004. Psychology and Consumer Culture: The Struggle for a Good Life in a Materialistic World, ed.Tim Kasser and Allen D. Kanner. Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association. In Metapsychology Book Review Site: http://mentalhelp.net/books.
Potter, Nancy. 2003. Review article of Melancholia and Moralism: Essays on AIDS and Queer Politics. Douglas Crimp. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 2003, in Metapsychology Book Review Site: http://mentalhelp.net/books.
Potter, Nancy. 2003. Sexual Deviance: Issues and Controversies. Ed.Tony Ward, D. Richard Laws, and Stephen M. Hudson. Thousand Oaks, Calif: Sage Publications. 2003, in Metapsychology Book Review Site: http://mentalhelp.net/books.
Potter, Nancy. 2003. Review article on First, Do No Harm: Power, Oppression, and Violence in Health Care. Ed. Nancy Diekelmann, Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press, in Metapsychology Book Review Site: http://mentalhelp.net/books

Potter, Nancy. 2002. Review article on Before Forgiving: Cautionary Views of Forgiviness in Psychotherapy. Ed. Sharon Lamb and Jeffrie Murphy, Oxford University Press 2002, in Metapsychology Book Review Site: http://mentalhelp.net/books.
Potter, Nancy. 2000. Review article on Violence Against Women:  Philosophical Perspectives, ed. Stanley French, Wanda Teays and Laura Purdy, Cornell University Press, in University of Toronto Quarterly 69 (1); 128-130.
Potter, Nancy. 1998. Review article on How Should One Live? ed. Roger Crisp, Oxford University Press, in Teaching Philosophy 21(1); 109-114.
Potter, Nancy. 1996.Review article on The Changing Face of Friendship, ed. Leroy Rowner 1994, University of Notre Dame Press, in Teaching Philosophy 19(2); 178-184.
 

IV. RECENT PRESENTATIONS
Potter, N. “Racism in Psychiatry.” American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, 2007.
Potter, Nancy. “Identity Disturbance.” 10th International Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology conference. South Africa plenary speaker. August 2007.
Potter, Nancy. “Inappropriate or Intense Anger as Pathology or Vice: Women and Borderline Personality Disorder.” American Philosophical Association Central Division April 2007.
Potter, Nancy. “Learning to be Thin, Learning to be Sick.” 9th International Conference on Philosophy and Psychiatry, Leiden, Netherlands 2006.
Potter, Nancy. “Defiance and Other Virtues of the Ruled.” APA Portland 2006.

Potter, Nancy. “’World’-Traveling: Learning How to Do It and Why It Is Important to the Health Professions.” Cultural and Linguistic Services. Louisville May 2006.
Potter, Nancy. “Teaching ‘World’-traveling in Medical School.” Just Doctoring: Addressing Racial and Ethnic Inequalities in Health Care, Chicago 2005.
Potter, Nancy. “The Problem with Too Much Anger: A Philosophical Approach to Understanding Anger in Borderline Personality Disordered Patients.” International Conference on Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology, Heidelberg 2004, Plenary Speaker.
Potter, Nancy. “Why BPD Patients Evoke Negative Responses and What’s at Stake.” International Conference on Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology, Heidelberg 2004,
Potter, Nancy. "Dissociation, Trances, and Transcendence: Cultural Values and Their Effects on Trust." American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting. New York City, May 2004.

Potter, Nancy. "What's Wrong with Being Manipulative? Phenomenology and Analysis of Manipulativity in Clinical Encounters." International Philosophy, Phenomenology, and Psychiatry Conference, Gothenburg, Sweden, November 2003.
Potter, Nancy. "Clinical Perceptions of the Manipulative Patient." Philosophy Brown Bag Series. University of Louisville, October 2003
Potter, Nancy. "Narrative Selves, Relations of Trust, and Bipolar Disorder," American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting, May 2003.
Potter, Nancy. "The Trustworthy Psychiatrist," International Symposium on the Philosophy and Ethics of Psychiatry/South Africa Society of Psychiatrists, Cape Town, South Africa September 2002.
Potter, Nancy. "Moral Tourists and 'World'-Travelers: Some Epistemological Issues in Understanding Patients' Worlds," International Symposium on the Philosophy and Ethics of Psychiatry/South Africa Society of Psychiatrists, Cape Town, South Africa September 2002.
Potter, Nancy. "Commodity/Body/Sign: Borderline Personality Disorder and the Cultural Labor of Signification," American Psychological Association, Chicago August 2002.
Potter, Nancy. "Self-injury and Communicative Ethics: The Body as Text" at Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry Board Meeting, Minneapolis, October 2001.
Potter, Nancy. "What's Funny About Violence?" International Interdisciplinary Conference of Cultural Studies: Between Politics and Ethics. Bath, England. July 2001.
Potter, Nancy. "Ethics and Informed Consent: High Stakes, High Risks" Ethics at the Frontiers of Medicine Conference. Louisville. April 2001.
Potter, Nancy. "An Analysis of the 'Exit Option' as a Way to Democratize Institutions and Nation-states." International Philosophers for Peace Conference. Calcutta, India. January 2001.
Potter, Nancy. "Forgiveness, Trust, and Truth-telling." Concerned Philosophers for Peace. Ontario, Canada. October 2000.
Potter, Nancy. "Can Postmodernism Provide a Meaningful Discourse on Madness?" International Philosophy and Psychiatry Conference. Florence, Italy. August 2000.
Potter, Nancy. "Is There a Role for Humor in the Midst of Conflict?" Seventeenth International Social Philosophy Conference. Ontario, Canada. July 2000.
 

V. WORK IN PROGRESS
 

Potter, Nancy, ed. Anthology on mental illness, racialization, and ethnicities.
 

VI. CURRENT PROFESSIONAL SERVICE WORK and Memberships
 

President, Association for the Advancement of Philosophy
        and Psychiatry, 2008-current
Vice President, Association for the Advancement of Philosophy
        and Psychiatry
Associate Editor, Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology
Advisory Board Member, Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology
Member, American Society for Bioethics and Humanities
Member, American Philosophical Association
Member, Society for Women in Philosophy
Member, Institute for Bioethics, Law, and Health Policy
Affiliated Faculty, Women’s and Gender Studies
Affiliated Scholar, Division of Medical Humanism and Ethics
Affiliated Scholar, Program for Education in Humanities, Ethics, and Professionalism
Norton Hospital Ethics Committee
Norton Hospital Ethics Council