📖 M. Scott Peck - People of the Lie
The Hope for Healing Human Evil
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Today’s book is:
People of the Lie: The Hope for Healing Human Evil by M. Scott Peck
In this absorbing and equally inspiring companion volume to his classic trilogy—The Road Less Traveled, Further Along the Road Less Traveled, and The Road Less Traveled and Beyond—Dr. M. Scott Peck brilliantly probes into the essence of human evil.
People who are evil attack others instead of facing their own failures. Peck demonstrates the havoc these people of the lie work in the lives of those around them. He presents, from vivid incidents encountered in his psychiatric practice, examples of evil in everyday life.
This book is by turns disturbing, fascinating, and altogether impossible to put down as it offers a strikingly original approach to the age-old problem of human evil.
You can buy the book here (Amazon link).
I read this book around 20 years ago - definitely worth a read. He documents the 'evil' parents, invariably unseen, behind disfunctional kids. He exposes them as often being cloaked as well respected citizens but in truth they are the 'people of the lie'. I was recommended this book by a friend whilst dealing with a very strange situation and I have to say it really shone a light on what was happening.
Haven’t read peck in decades. need to reread as I remember these books being very enlightening to me at the time. Sad I can’t remember anything about them.