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People of the lie : the hope for healing human evil / M. Scott Peck.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Touchstone bookPublication details: New York : Simon and Schuster, 1983]Description: 269 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780671454920
  • 9780684848594
  • 9780671528164
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • BF51.P367.P467 1983
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Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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Circulating Book (checkout times vary with patron status) G. Allen Fleece Library Circulating Collection - First Floor BF51.P367.P467 1983 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31923000575478

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.

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