Bücher von M. Scott Peck

Drawing on the experiences of his career as a psychiatrist, Scott Peck combines scientific and spiritual views to guide us through the difficult, painful times in life by showing us how to confront our problems through the key principles of discipline, love and grace.

Unsere materiellen Errungenschaften haben nicht nur existentielle Umweltprobleme hervorgebracht, sie führen in der industriellen Welt auch zu emotioneller Verarmung wie Einsamkeit, Depressionen und hohen Scheidungsraten. Was in unserer Gesellschaft fehlt, ist wirkliche Gemeinschaft, in der man sich tatsächlich nah ist. In Notsituationen erlebt man, wie intensive Gemeinschaften entsteht, aber kann dieser besondere Gemeinschaftsgeist auch willentlich geschaffen werden ohne äußere Katastrophen?In vielen Jahren der Forschung und konkreten Erfahrungen hat Scott Peck die Grundlagen von wirklicher Gemeinschaft herauskristallisiert und festgestellt, dass eine Gruppe auf dem Weg zur wahren Gemeinschaft vier Phasen durchläuft: Pseudogemeinschaft, Chaos, Leere und Authentizität. Er hat außerdem Kommunikationsempfehlungen aufgestellt, um einer Gruppe diese wichtigen Erfahrungen zu erleichtern.

Die Quintessenz dieses Klassikers kann man beschreiben mit der Volksweisheit "Jeder ist seines Glückes Schmied". Habe Mut, Eigenverantwortung für dein Leben zu übernehmen, ist die Devise des Psychotherapeuten M. Scott Peck. Erst wenn wir daran gehen, die Probleme, mit denen wir konfrontiert sind, anzunehmen, findet eine bewusste positive Entwicklung in unserem Leben statt.

The legendary bestselling author and renowned psychiatrist M. Scott Peck, whose books have sold over 14 million copies, reveals the amazing true story of his work as an exorcist -- kept secret for more than twenty-five years -- in two profoundly human stories of satanic possession. In the tradition of his million-copy bestseller People of the Lie: The Hope for Healing Human Evil, Scott Peck's new book offers the first complete account of exorcism and possession by a modern psychiatrist in this extraordinary personal narrative of his efforts to heal patients suffering from demonic and satanic possession. For the first time, Dr. Peck discusses his experience in conducting exorcisms, sharing the spellbinding details of his two major cases: one a moving testament to his healing abilities, and the other a perilous and ultimately unsuccessful struggle against darkness and evil. Twenty-seven-year-old Jersey was of average intelligence; a caring and devoted wife and mother to her husband and two young daughters, she had no history of mental illness. Beccah, in her mid-forties and with a superior intellect, had suffered from profound depression throughout her life, choosing to remain in an abusive relationship with her husband, one dominated by distrust and greed. Until the day Dr. Peck first met the young woman called Jersey, he did not believe in the devil. In fact, as a mature, highly experienced psychiatrist, he expected that this case would resolve his ongoing effort to prove to himself, as scientifically as possible, that there were absolutely no grounds for such beliefs. Yet what he discovered could not be explained away simply as madness or by any standard clinical diagnosis. Through a series of unanticipated events, Dr. Peck found himself thrust into the role of exorcist, and his desire to treat and help Jersey led him down a path of blurred boundaries between science and religion. Once there, he came face-to-face with deeply entrenched evil and ultimately witnessed the overwhelming healing power of love. In Glimpses of the Devil, Dr. Peck's celebrated gift for integrating psychiatry and religion is demonstrated yet again as he recounts his journey from skepticism to eventual acknowledgment of the reality of an evil spirit, even at the risk of being shunned by the medical establishment. In the process, he also finds himself compelled to confront the larger paradox of free will, of a commitment to goodness versus enslavement to the forms of evil, and the monumental clash of forces that endangers both sanity and the soul. Glimpses of the Devil is unquestionably among Scott Peck's most powerful, scrupulously written, and important books in many years. At once deeply sensitive and intensely chilling, it takes a clear-eyed look at one of the most mysterious and misunderstood areas of human experience.

'The overall purpose of human communication is - or should be - reconciliation. It should ultimately serve to lower or remove the walls of misunderstanding which unduly separate us human beings, one from another...' Although we have developed the technology to make communication more efficent and to bring people closer together, we have failed to use it to build a true global community. Dr M. Scott Peck believes that if we are to prevent civilization destroying itself, we must urgently rebuild on all levels, local, national and international and that is the first step to spiritual survival. In this radical and challenging book, he describes how the communities work, how group action can be developed on the principles of tolerance and love, and how we can start to transform world society into a true community.