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

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

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Title remainder

a new psychology of love, traditional values, and spiritual growth

Statement of responsibility

M. Scott Peck

Instantiates

• The road less traveled : a new psychology of love, traditional values, and spiritual growth

Publication

• New York, Simon and Schuster, ©1978

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

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volume

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rdacarrier

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text

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• txt

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rdacontent

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-- Neuroses and character disorders -- Escape from freedom -- Dedication to reality -- Transference : the outdated map -- Openness to challenge -- Withholding truth -- Balancing -- The healthiness of depression -- Renunciation and rebirth -- II.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

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21 cm.

Extent

316 pages

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9780671250676

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79015410

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rdamedia

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• n

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000448911

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99195346620001161

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(OCoLC)5101604