TY - BOOK AU - Peck,M.Scott TI - People of the lie: the hope for healing human evil SN - 9780671454920 AV - BF51 .P467 1983 PY - 1983/// CY - New York PB - Simon and Schuster KW - Psychology and religion KW - Good and evil KW - Psychological aspects KW - Psychology, Pathological N1 - 1; 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; 2; b N2 - 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 UR - https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/4226967-M.jpg ER -