Favourite self help book? The Soul's Code by James Hillman.

[applegrove]

I should read it again because I have read it in years but every page was like butter as I recall!

[Tuesday Afternoon]

1. M. Scott Peck's books were enlightening to me.

The Road Less Traveled
published in 1978, is Peck's best-known work, and the one that made his reputation. It is, in short, a description of the attributes that make for a fulfilled human being, based largely on his experiences as a psychiatrist and a person.

In the first section of the work Peck talks about discipline, which he considers essential for emotional, spiritual and psychological health, and which he describes as "the means of spiritual evolution". The elements of discipline that make for such health include the ability to delay gratification, accepting responsibility for oneself and one's actions, a dedication to truth and balancing.

In the second section, Peck considers the nature of love, which he considers the driving force behind spiritual growth. The section mainly attacks a number of misconceptions about love: that romantic love exists (he considers it a very destructive myth), that it is about dependency, that true love is not "falling in love".', it is a feeling. Instead "true" love is about the extending of one's ego boundaries to include another, and about the spiritual nurturing of another.




People of the Lie
First published in 1983, People of the Lie: The Hope For Healing Human Evil<3> (ISBN 0 7126 1857 0) followed on from Peck's first book. Peck describes the stories of several people who came to him whom he found particularly resistant to any form of help. He came to think of them as evil and goes on to describe the characteristics of evil in psychological terms, proposing that it could become a psychiatric diagnosis.


more at link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._Scott_Peck

[applegrove]

2. I liked those books too. Mostly because I was brand new to psychology and Peck

was telling tales out of school.

[freshwest]

6. I read that, also Goldman's Emotional Intelligence. Earlier, all of Fromm's books.

[TuxedoKat]

3. I liked

People of the Lie too. The part about group evil was particularly interesting.

[grasswire]

4. I read People of the Lie when I learned my ex husband was a narcissist

Scared the heck out of me. I have revisited that info so many times over the years. I survived a long abusive marriage to a pathological narcissist with help from Peck.

[grasswire]

5. tell me about the book

...?

[XemaSab]

7. Deep Survival

It's not technically a self-help book, but it gives you stuff to think about while regaling you with tales of epic adventure. For example, there are true stories of people lost at sea coupled with meditations on what it means to be prepared and the kinds of insights that lead a person to clear thinking in a survival situation.