Research Catalog

Title

The road less traveled : a new psychology of love, traditional values, and spiritual growth / M. Scott Peck.

Author

Peck, M. Scott (Morgan Scott), 1936-2005

Publication

• New York, New York : Simon and Schuster, [1979]
• ©1978

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Details

Description

316 pages : illustrations; 21 cm

Subject

• Self-actualization (Psychology)
• Maturation (Psychology)
• Interpersonal relations
• Love
• Values
• Spirituality

Note

• "A Touchstone book."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

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-- Neuroses and character disorders -- Escape from freedom -- Dedication to reality -- Transference : the outdated map -- Openness to challenge -- Withholding truth -- Balancing -- The healthiness of depression -- Reunuciation and rebirth -- II.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 -- 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 -- 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.

Call Number

JFD 85-5412

ISBN

• 0671250671
• 9780671250676
• 0671240862
• 9780671240868

LCCN

79015410

OCLC

• 5101604
• 1042562466

Author

Peck, M. Scott (Morgan Scott), 1936-2005, author.

Title

The road less traveled : a new psychology of love, traditional values, and spiritual growth / M. Scott Peck.

Publisher

New York, New York : Simon and Schuster, [1979]

Copyright Date

©1978

Edition

[Paperback edition].

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Summary

Discusses the nature of loving relationships in the context of traditional psychological and spiritual insights.

Research Call Number

JFD 85-5412