Book description
Confronting and solving problems is a painful process which most of
us attempt to avoid. Avoiding resolution results in greater pain and
an inability to grow both mentally and spiritually. Drawing heavily on
his own professional experience, Dr M. Scott Peck, a psychiatrist,
suggests ways in which facing our difficulties - and suffering through
the changes - can enable us to reach a higher level of
self-understanding. He discusses the nature of loving relationships:
how to distinguish dependency from love; how to become one's own
person and how to be a more sensitive parent.
This is a book that can show you how to embrace reality and yet
achieve serenity and a richer existence. Hugely influential, it has
now sold over ten million copies - and has changed many people's lives
round the globe. It may change yours.
A brilliant self-help book, which I found genuinely inspiring...I
love this book, it's my spiritual refuge and I'm certain everyone will
find something to console them within these pages. Boy George, Sunday
Express 20031117 A graduate of both Harvard University and Case
Western Reserve, Dr Peck served in the Army Medical Corps from 1963 to
1972 and had a private practice in psychiatry from 1972 to 1983. He also
devoted much of his time and financial resources to the work of the
Foundation for Community Encouragement, a nonprofit organization which
he and his wife, Lily, helped found in 1984. His bestselling books
include
The Road Less Travelled and Beyond
,
A World Waiting to Be Born
, and W
hat Return Can I Make?
Dr Peck died in 2005.
