People of the Lie: The Hope for Healing Human Evil
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Manufacturer: Touchstone
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 616.89
EAN: 9780684848594
ISBN: 0684848597
Label: Touchstone
Manufacturer: Touchstone
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 276
Publication Date: 1998-01-02
Publisher: Touchstone
Studio: Touchstone
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A description of the author's experience of psychiatric therapy with patients who appear manifestly evil which attempts to show that a spiritual or even religious dimension is required to aid in the understanding of human nature.
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Summary: Risky Business
Comment: It's always risky when a psychiatrist goes against the majority view and proposes something radical. And Dr Peck's proposal that some human beings are simply "evil" certainly contradicts the assumptions of most in his profession. But Peck's argument is strong, and his definition of human evil is both fascinating and potentially productive for psychiatrists, counseloors, and pastors alike.
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Summary: Peck's witch hunt
Comment: To 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 A very dangerous, irresponsible, and outdated conclusion.
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Summary: DANGER - This is a life-changing book
Comment: Twenty-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.
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Summary: The Ability to Recognize Human Evil is Crucial for Self-Preservation
Comment: Psychiatrist, 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.
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Summary: a helpful primer on thinking about evil
Comment: After reading, enjoying, and becoming inspired by The Road Less Travelled I had to take Dr. Peck's writing seriously. People of the Lie was a wrenching departure from his first book, a "nice book", as he says. Even tho I am no longer a Christian and in spite of the Christian overtones of POTL, I found it to be not just fascinating but helpful. It is a thought-provoking book, to say the least, and even "over the top" in parts. Still, to this day, perhaps 15 years after reading it, I think about evil in terms of Dr. Peck's principles. Whenever I encounter chronic confusion and pervasive lies I begin to think about the possibility of an evil personality. There are people I have known whose influences and actions struck me as evil, but their destructiveness was not evident at the time, when they seemed completely normal in every way. And that's one of his main points: we tend to think of evil as "back then and over there", not in the mother of three next door or the church deacon across the street, but that's exactly where it can be. And so often that destruction is visited upon children, so that the results are only apparent after years of awfulness, of crushed and crippled spirits, of destroyed souls. And he cautions us: it's all too easy to hate the evil person, but all of us are capable of evil. I believe he's right. This book is indeed an excellent beginning of a more scientific examination of the nature of evil.
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