People of the Lie: The Hope for Healing Human Evil | M. Scott Peck

People of the Lie: The Hope for Healing Human Evil | M. Scott Peck | I rrecommend this book over and over

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	People of the Lie: The Hope for Healing Human Evil M. Scott Peck Touchstone, 1998 - 276 pages average customer review:based on 147 reviews view larger image
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A Fascinating Work from a Great Author

Author of the classical "The Road Less Travelled", Scott Peck is a most interesting writer. In his afore mentioned book, he focused on Love; in this one, he focuses on evil. Human "evil" is most often considered with no serious background or consideration, but Peck proposes in this work a very serious use of the term. In short, he proposes "evil" as a very strict psychopathological feature, alongside with the likes of schizophrenia and depression.

The book divides itself in 7 chapters. It covers a wide span of occasions where evil is at work; from Peck's own patients to the atrocities of the Vietnam War and cases of possessions and their exorcisms. While this may sound dramatic, it isn't so at all.

Anyone with an interest in the human mind and how it functions will find a lot in this amazing work. Moreover, if you had the opportunity to have suffered the company of an evil one, you may find some real solace in here, if only because something without a name is always more frightening than something named. This is what Peck does here; he gives something a name so that we can fight it more efficiently. Defining evil as a case of dysfunctional mental health is part of the goal in "The People of the Lie", and Peck does it well. It gives much thought about the issue, and it's a riveting read. I loved his previous book, and I love this one equally. I highly recommend it.

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I rrecommend this book over and over

Scott Peck's best, if not most famous, work.

If you find yourself baffled by the behavior of people around you, or dealing with the after math of some traumatic experience, this book may show you just what is going on. Once you read it you cannot ever go back and be ignorant of what Peck lays out.

I also recommend (for a more Jungian take) Sanfords "Jung and the Problem of Evil." .Jung and the Problem of Evil: The Strange Trial of Mr. Hyde Sanford references Peck and vice versa. but if you need to understand evil and how it operates in the world... this book is without a single competitor

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People of the Lie

The book is one of those more than worth reading. WHY? B/c it will indeed be a strong link used to transform you to the person you know and want to be - for yourself and the world around you. It is a must read if you are a person that wishes not to live a lie!

Frightening and awakening

I had a hard time getting thru this book. Not that it was too hard, but one of those you have to read some and then go outside and look at your flowers to calm yourself. Some of it is very rough, but enlightening at the same time. I recommend every single person read this book at some point. I explains a lot of things to me. The mind of a sick person thru the eyes of a DR. Very interesting.

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Results oriented "science"

Peck is writing like Freud long after it is ok to practice "science" using anecdotal evidence. This methodology is highly suspect and cannot be used to prove any theory. The theory Peck sets out to prove -- that a Christian conception of evil exists -- is itself suspect because he approaches it from the biased perspective of a believer. As a work of science and medicine it is therefore not worth the paper it is written on. Nevertheless, I give it three stars because it is a good read, and it is interesting. The anecdotes tell you as much about Peck as they do about his subjects.

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