BookNancy Nyquist Potter.
Summary: This book offers a nuanced and complex look at defiance, taking seriously issues of dysfunction while also attending to the social contexts in which defiant behaviour may arise. Case studies, a framework for differentiating different forms of defiance, and a realistic picture of phronesis (practical reasoning) are all covered.
Contents:
1. Family resemblances: Compliance, the right to refuse treatment, noncompliance, resistance, reactance, and defiance
2. Theorizing defiance
3. Good defiance and flourishing
4. Interpreting defiant behavior in children: Constructs, norms, and intersectionalities
5. Bad and good defiance: Practical reasoning as guide
6. The virtue of giving uptake in psychiatry.