People of the Lie: The Hope for Healing Human Evil
Touchstone - Touchstone
Release date: 1998-01-02
Paperback
Author: M. Scott Peck
Popular psychology, Medical, Psychology, General, Psychology / General, Psychiatry - General, Good and evil, Psychological aspects, Psychology and religion
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People of the Lie: The Hope for Healing Human Evil
Date undefinedTo quote another reviewer who said it well "I'm assuming that this book was published before the widespread acceptance of biological causes of mental illness, since Peck's "case studies" that appear to be primarily cases of obsessive-compulsive disorder, major depression, borderline personality disorder or some form of psychosis, all of which are now treatable with drugs" (Cade Foster). I completely agree. When I read this book quite a while ago, I found it pretty absorbing, but I was alarmed to see him call behaviors I recognized in myself evil. Later I found out they were aspects of OCD. I believe he also describes aspects of ADD/ADHD. These conditions are treatable medically and/or with diet and are not "evil". A very dangerous, irresponsible, and outdated conclusion.
People of the Lie: The Hope for Healing Human Evil
Date undefinedTwenty-five years ago Dr. M. Scott Peck (author of "The Road Less Traveled" series of books) threw down the gauntlet, challenging the psychological and scientific communities to subject human evil to the same rigorous study as other human behaviors. Only within the last very few years has anyone had sufficient courage to take up that challenge.
Ever been relentlessly lied to - or about - by someone? Ever been stunned to realize that someone in your life somehow behaves as though he's the center of the universe and everything and everyone else is somehow LESS? Ever come face to face with virulent narcissism? This book will help you understand. But beware: such knowledge comes at a cost. Gone forever will be any vestage of naivete.
People of the Lie: The Hope for Healing Human Evil
Date undefinedPsychiatrist, Dr. Scott Peck, defines human evil. After working with thousands of patients, Dr. Peck finds that there is a common thread between many of them; a life of lies along with complete & total self-absorption. To realize that there are people among us that are truly evil is unsettling, to say the least. However, the ability to recognize evil people is critical and crucial to human self-preservation. The reader must be careful, however, not to "diagnose" all liars and narcissistic people as evil. This is an eye-opening book, but "sheltered" readers may have trouble believing that their fellow humans can be capable of the evil that Dr. Peck identifies with such detail.
