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

By: Peck, M. Scott (Morgan Scott), 1936-2005.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: London : Rider, 1978Description: 316 p. ; 20 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 0712618198.Subject(s): Self-actualization (Psychology) | Maturation (Psychology) | Interpersonal relations | Love | Values | SpiritualityDDC classification: 158.1
Contents:
Introduction -- 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Responsibility -- Neuroses and character disorders -- Escape from freedom -- Dedication to reality -- Transference: the outdated map -- Openness to challenge -- Withholding truth -- Balancing -- The healthiness and depression -- Renunciation and rebirth -- II: Love -- Love defined --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 in 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.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
General Lending MTU Bishopstown Library Lending 158.1 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00083123
Total holds: 0

Includes bibliographical references.

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-- Neuroses and character disorders -- Escape from freedom -- Dedication to reality -- Transference: the outdated map -- Openness to challenge -- Withholding truth -- Balancing -- The healthiness and depression -- Renunciation and rebirth -- II: Love -- Love defined --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

CIT Module COUN 6007 - Core reading

CIT Module COUN 6008 - Core reading

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