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by M. Scott Peck
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Spotlight Reviews (What's this?) Write an online review and share your thoughts with other customers. 9 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
The stories in M. Scott Peck's pop-psychology are frequently spotted with moments where one family member and M. Scott gang up on one or more other family members and call them "evil" in the middle of a session. When this happens, the dread M. Scott also makes a kind of literalist connection between the body of the sinner and Sin itself. He takes the abstract concept of Satan and visits that directly into the body of the outcast family member. "Satan, be gone. We must heal these wounds (boys, bodies)." I think M. Scott Peck must be on the President's reading list, and he must have passed this book onto his children, perhaps after casting out the devil from their adolescent cheedler-bumping behavior. I think probably M. Scott Peck's model of family diversity has a trickle down effect to the rest of the United States of America. Perhaps even it might explain our need to continually employ the language of the church in the various imperialist conquests being made throughout the globe. Something else I've been speculating about is that Our President is involved in elaborate fornication rituals with his children. I think it's highly possible, knowing the way empires are built through inbreeding. When you are the Kennedys, for example, you start to have lots of choices, so your children don't look really fucked up and weird. But when you're Bush one and Bush two and Bush three, people are a little more suspicious. But this is all high speculation. Was this review helpful to you? 
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I am not expert in psychology, but have had a significant amount of exposure to concepts and to those with mental illness. Some of the cases Peck presents show very difficult patients, but I could not understand why he judged all to be evil. In fact, the only case with which I clearly saw an evil element was of the boy who received a "present" from his parents of a gun his own brother had used to kill himself. The book has some value in stimulating discussion and consideration
of the topics broached. Certainly, "he's just sick" should not be a blanket
justification for wickedness, nor should we deny that evil exists - and lies,
manipulation, and total self centredness can be chilling in the extreme.
Yet Scott's combination of a self-developed approach to theology (flawed
on many counts) and a psychology based on the pre-supposition that the difficult
are evil falls far short of both marks. 3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
The book is about power, manipulation, boundaries, lies and evil as they exist within ourselves and the people around us. They don't require that we believe in them to exist, but if we're able to recognize them for what they are it helps. Recognizing it doesn't make it easy, but it makes it possible. Peck's premises mightn't be entirely correct, as some suggest. But whether it's 'evil' or merely something not evil that could get a job being evil if there was such an occupation, Peck's approach works. I recommend this book for anyone who knows, loves, cares about and
lives with the agonies of the phenomenon Peck calls 'evil'.
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Once I took a class with the rector... April 10, 1989 
Excellent look at case studies of evil., August 1, 2004 