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The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition : A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth (Paperback)
by M. Scott Peck, M.D.
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Filled with case studies and personal antidotes that bring clarity to our understanding of discipline, love, growth, and grace, the book is worthy attempt in the integration of psychology and religion. |
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Author: M. Scott Peck, M.D.
Publisher: Touchstone; 25th Annv edition
Pub. in: February, 2003
ISBN: 0743243153
Pages: 320
Measurements: 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.8 inches
Origin of product: USA
Order code: BA00466
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- Awards & Credential -
Over 7 million copies sold in North America, translated into 23 languages, and more than 10 years on The New York Times bestseller list. |
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The Road Less Travelled is a book about non-conformity - being brave enough to admit that your life isn't going as well as you think it is, and finding your own path towards the truth, love, and perhaps even God. Most people with even the most modest amount of self-awareness go through a stage whereby they challenge their own/parents/friends/ societies beliefs and start to look for answers. Few however, truly do change; instead they resign themselves to a mediocre existence of habitual worship (to God or to money) and habitual love. This book's message is clear: do not to give up so easily, keep on searching!
At the time M. Scott Peck wrote the book, a main area of interest to him was Zen Buddhism, which fundamentally deals with the fact that our desires cause suffering (see The Four Noble Truths of the Buddha). As a consequence of this, the book is a mixture of his own brand of psychology and psychotherapy (think along the lines of C.G. Jung), Eastern philosophy with a dash of Christianity thrown in for good measure. Peck's questions and ideas are nothing new, however, he skilfully relates his own professional experiences with patients to exemplify the importance of self-understanding, so that we might break free from our suffering. As part of this, Peck obliges us to examine the fundamental questions of our existence - what is the real nature of love? Is there any order to the universe? What is the meaning of life itself? Peck never directly gives us the answers, but does ask the questions and offers up his own theories.
The Road Less Travelled is a good book for those searching for some truth in their life, and one that I think everyone should read at least once. After this however, Peck clearly forgot his own advice. He became a "Born Again", started up a foundation, and gave several lectures on psychology, life, and his love of Jesus. I am not saying there's anything wrong with choosing a religion, though in my experience you develop a tunnel vision on things, which is clearly what happened of Peck. Still, The Road Less Travelled comes recommended to everyone, just realise that Peck doesn't have all the answers (no book will).
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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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From the Publisher:
Perhaps no book in this generation has had a more profound impact on our intellectual and spiritual lives than The Road Less Traveled. With sales of more than seven million copies in the United States and Canada, and translations into more than twenty-three languages, it has made publishing history, with more than ten years on The New York Times bestseller list.
Now, with a new Introduction by the author, written especially for this twenty-fifth anniversary deluxe trade paperback edition of the all-time national bestseller in its field, M. Scott Peck explains the ideas that shaped this book and that continue to influence an ever-growing audience of readers.
Written in a voice that is timeless in its message of understanding, The Road Less Traveled continues to help us explore the very nature of loving relationships and leads us toward a new serenity and fullness of life. It helps us learn how to distinguish dependency from love; how to become a more sensitive parent; and ultimately how to become one's own true self.
Recognizing that, as in the famous opening line of his book, "Life is difficult" and that the journey to spiritual growth is a long one, Dr. Peck never bullies his readers, but rather guides them gently through the hard and often painful process of change toward a higher level of self-understanding.
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Phyllis Theroux, The Washington Post (MSL quote), USA
<2007-01-05 00:00>
Not just a book, but a spontaneous act of generosity. |
Publishers Weekly (MSL quote), USA
<2007-01-05 00:00>
Psychotherapy is all things to all people in this mega-selling pop- psychology watershed, which features a new introduction by the author in this 25th anniversary edition. His agenda in this tome, which was first published in 1978 but didn't become a bestseller until 1983, is to reconcile the psychoanalytic tradition with the conflicting cultural currents roiling the 70s. In the spirit of Me-Decade individualism and libertinism, he celebrates self-actualization as life's highest purpose and flirts with the notions of open marriage and therapeutic sex between patient and analyst. But because he is attuned to the nascent conservative backlash against the therapeutic worldview, Peck also cites Gospel passages, recruits psychotherapy to the cause of traditional religion (he even convinces a patient to sign up for divinity school) and insists that problems must be overcome through suffering, discipline and hard work (with a therapist.) Often departing from the cerebral and rationalistic bent of Freudian discourse for a mystical, Jungian tone more compatible with New Age spirituality, Peck writes of psychotherapy as an exercise in "love" and "spiritual growth," asserts that "our unconscious is God" and affirms his belief in miracles, reincarnation and telepathy. Peck's synthesis of such clashing elements (he even throws in a little thermodynamics) is held together by a warm and lucid discussion of psychiatric principles and moving accounts of his own patients' struggles and breakthroughs. Harmonizing psychoanalysis and spirituality, Christ and Buddha, Calvinist work ethic and interminable talking cures, this book is a touchstone of our contemporary religio-therapeutic culture. |
An Israeli reader (MSL quote), USA
<2007-01-05 00:00>
This book has helped many people. Its message is that 'Life is difficult' and that we make it more so by running away from our responsibilities and pretending that life cannot be difficult. Peck's prescription for a better life is realizing that life involves a constant effort to understand and improve ourselves. He supplies case- histories of people who seem to have given up or be lost, and then in psychotherapy with him find a way to make better lives. One especially moving story was of a young man who simply could not feel joy at anything in life. He simply had lost his enthusiasm. It turned out that not only had this young man lost a best friend, he had grown up in a world where his two elder brothers knocked down immediately any idea he might have. They tormented him continually and made fun of him. And the parents never paid attention. Peck in two years of psychotherapy was able to teach this young person to stop being fixated at what he was when he was ten years old. He taught the young man how to respect his own thoughts.
Peck's message again is of a new psychologyof love, traditional values and spiritual growth.He warns against our tendency to escape from freedom, and to rely on outdated maps of our situation.
My sense is that this book has helped so many people in part because so many of us need help. We are continually looking for a message, a word of wisdom or spiritual insight that will help us , and renew our faith in ourselves and life. We are continually looking for a spiritual teacher that will be able to help us.
I must admit that this book does not really provide me personally with the kind of message and help I feel a need for at the moment.
How I miss my teacher and friend the Holy Teacher Dovid Herzberg who taught by his example a love of people and joy in being with them which lifted up all those who knew him.
Scott Peck by this book probably helped thousands maybe even tens of thousands of people. Dovid Herzberg helped tens of people maybe even hundreds. But for me and all those who were blessed to know him, he was the highest of the highest.
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Charles Bector (MSL quote), USA
<2007-01-05 00:00>
Let me start by saying that The Road Less Travelled does not provide short cuts in the elusive road to happiness or self-satisfaction. It is a map, constructed from Peck's profesional opinions that assists in guiding those of us who are afraid to acknowledge challenge and pain. I've often found myself shut off from the world, but after reading it I came to discover that my isolation is a direct result of my choices. It gave me an outsiders perspective on the multiple excuses people make for themselves to avoid the loss of personal security.The Road Less Travelled is not for everyone, for there are portions of the book that seem misguided. Still, this is all part of the charm in Peck's philosphy on life. He isn't afraid of his imperfections, and he recognizes that in some areas his book is flawed. The Road Less Traveled is simply his educated opinion on life, nothing more, and nothing less. |
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