People of the Lie : the Hope for Healing Human Evil – M. Scott Peck

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the Hope for Healing Human Evil

Condition: Good. Cover bit faded with a spot or two. Yellowing and ageing signs but in perfect reading condition and tightly bound.

Fascinating book!!!!! (my personal opinion)

269 Pages, Paperback, 21×13.5×1.7cm

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.

“Peck’s analysis deals with far more mundane manifestations, and illustrates through case studies he encountered in his career: Not serial killers or the like, that most people would imagine when they hear the word “evil,” but otherwise normal-ish people whose unremitting lack of accountability and casual lying prove consistently destructive to those around them.

It explains a lot, and I think would do so for most people’s experiences. Peck conceives of even the most extreme manifestations of evil as arising from these more banal circumstances – from personalities that are willfully impenetrable to self-examination and, to maintain that state, engage in scapegoating of others.

Since they’re not capable of truly blaming themselves for anything – even small things – honestly enough to change in the slightest way, they must constantly create fictional contexts (i.e., lies) to rationalize why it’s all someone else’s fault, without exception.”-Review-Anon.