People of the Lie (20)

People of the Lie
M. Scott Peck
Read 7/28/09

Written by a doctor of psychiatry this is a look at people who are clinically evil. While this is not an officially recognized diagnosis, he maintains that it should be and provides some examples of different people. The examples are interesting, in some cases horrifying. I had trouble with the whole concept of evil, while the people in the examples definitely did some odd and destructive things, I have trouble calling it evil. This is my hangup, not necessarily the books. The Doctor is also a born again Christian and is very open about his faith and how it colors his out look, so that lost me to an extent also.
While I didn’t buy into everything in the book it was a worthwhile read.

You can visit the authors website at: http://www.mscottpeck.com/index.html