People of the lie : the hope for healing human evil /
Peck, M. Scott 1936-2005.,
People of the lie : the hope for healing human evil / M. Scott Peck. - New York : Simon and Schuster, (c)1983. - 269 pages ; 22 cm
Includes bibliographical references.
Handle with care -- The man who made a pact with the devil -- Toward a psychology of evil -- The enounter with evil in everyday life -- Charlene: a teaching case -- Of possession and exorcism -- Mylai: an examination of group evil -- The danger and the hope.
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.
9780671454920 9780684848594 9780671528164
83013631
008441751 Uk
Psychology and religion.
Good and evil--Psychological aspects.
Psychology, Pathological.
BF51 / .P467 1983
People of the lie : the hope for healing human evil / M. Scott Peck. - New York : Simon and Schuster, (c)1983. - 269 pages ; 22 cm
Includes bibliographical references.
Handle with care -- The man who made a pact with the devil -- Toward a psychology of evil -- The enounter with evil in everyday life -- Charlene: a teaching case -- Of possession and exorcism -- Mylai: an examination of group evil -- The danger and the hope.
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.
9780671454920 9780684848594 9780671528164
83013631
008441751 Uk
Psychology and religion.
Good and evil--Psychological aspects.
Psychology, Pathological.
BF51 / .P467 1983