The Road Less Traveled
A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth
1st Edition
Published on 13. March 2012
320 pages
978-1-4391-4485-5 (ISBN)
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M. Scott Peck, M.D., is a psychiatrist and bestselling author. Educated at Harvard (B.A.) and Case Western Reserve (M.D.), Dr. Peck served in administrative posts in the government during his career as a psychiatrist, and later in private practice. For nearly two decades, he has devoted much of his time and financial resources to the work of the Foundation for Community Encouragement, a nonprofit organization that he and his wife, Lily, helped found in 1984. He lives in northwestern Connecticut.
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M. Scott Peck, M.D. is the author of the New York Times best-seller The Road Less Traveled, with six million copies in print. His other books include Further Along the Road Less Traveled, The Road Less Traveled and Beyond, Meditations from the Road and Golf and the Spirit.
Content
- Intro
- Dedication
- Introduction
- Contents
- Preface
- Section I: Discipline
- Problems and Pain
- Delaying Gratification
- The Sins of the Father
- Problem-Solving and Time
- Responsibility
- Neuroses and Character Disorders
- Escape from Freedom
- Dedication to Reality
- Transference: The Outdated Map
- Openness to Challenge
- Withholding Truth
- Balancing
- The Healthiness of Depression
- Renunciation and Rebirth
- Section II: Love
- Love Defined
- Falling in "Love"
- The Myth of Romantic Love
- More About Ego Boundaries
- Dependency
- Cathexis Without Love
- "Self-Sacrifice"
- Love Is Not a Feeling
- The Work of Attention
- The Risk of Loss
- The Risk of Independence
- The Risk of Commitment
- The Risk of Confrontation
- Love Is Disciplined
- Love Is Separateness
- Love and Psychotherapy
- The Mystery of Love
- Section III: Growth and Religion
- World Views and Religion
- The Religion of Science
- The Case of Kathy
- The Case of Marcia
- The Case of Theodore
- The Baby and the Bath Water
- Scientific Tunnel Vision
- Section IV: Grace
- The Miracle of Health
- The Miracle of the Unconscious
- The Miracle of Serendipity
- The Definition of Grace
- The Miracle of Evolution
- The Alpha and the Omega
- Entropy and Original Sin
- The Problem of Evil
- The Evolution of Consciousness
- The Nature of Power
- Grace and Mental Illness: The Myth of Orestes
- Resistance to Grace
- The Welcoming of Grace
- Afterword
- Footnotes
- Chapter 1 Note 1
- Chapter 1 Note 2
- Chapter 7 Note 3
- Chapter 7 Note 4
- Chapter 10 Note 5
- Chapter 11 Note 6
- Chapter 13 Note 7
- Chapter 14 Note 8
- Chapter 14 Note 9
- Chapter 14 Note 10
- Chapter 17 Note 11
- Chapter 18 Note 12
- Chapter 20 Note 13
- Chapter 23 Note 14
- Chapter 24 Note 15
- Chapter 26 Note 16
- Chapter 27 Note 17
- Chapter 28 Note 18
- Chapter 29 Note 19
- Chapter 29 Note 20
- Chapter 29 Note 21
- Chapter 30 Note 22
- Chapter 32 Note 23
- Chapter 32 Note 24
- Chapter 33 Note 25
- Chapter 37 Note 26
- Chapter 38 Note 27
- Chapter 38 Note 28
- Chapter 39 Note 29
- Chapter 41 Note 30
- Chapter 41 Note 31
- Chapter 42 Note 32
- Chapter 43 Note 33
- Chapter 43 Note 34
- Chapter 47 Note 35
- Chapter 48 Note 36
- Chapter 49 Note 37
- Chapter 49 Note 38
- Chapter 49 Note 39
- Chapter 50 Note 40
- Chapter 50 Note 41
- Chapter 50 Note 42
- Chapter 50 Note 43
- About the Author
- Copyright
