People of the Lie
Touchstone · Print & ebook · January 2, 1998
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- Who it’s for
- A probing, unsettling look at human evil through vivid incidents from psychiatric practice.
- Themes
- Human evil, Avoiding personal failure, Harmful effects on others
- Genres
- Good & Evil, Mental Disorders, Mental Health
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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.
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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.
Evil in Everyday Life
A probing, unsettling look at human evil through vivid incidents from psychiatric practice.
Come here for
- A psychological lens on harm and the refusal to face failure
- Questions about evil beyond the age-old abstractions
Expect
- Disturbing, fascinating case-based reflection
- An original approach to a difficult human question
Where it sits
| Good & Evil | 37% |
|---|---|
| Mental Disorders | 34% |
| Mental Health | 19% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Business Communication
- The Presidency & Executive
- Personality
- Authors
- M. Scott Peck
- Publisher
- Touchstone
- Published
- January 2, 1998
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Human evil · Avoiding personal failure · Harmful effects on others
- Reading lane
- Business Communication