Boomer Guru: How M. Scott Peck Guided Millions But Lost Himself on the Road Less Traveled
- ISBN-10
- 097687511X
- ISBN-13
- 9780976875116
- Category
- Psychiatrists
- Pages
- 211
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2015-10-23
- Publisher
- Capparoe Books
- Author
- Arthur Jones
Description
In the 1980s and 1990s, thousands of women wrote to psychiatrist M. Scott Peck, MD, to thank him for pulling them through difficult patches of their lives with his ground-breaking and best-selling self-help book, The Road Less Traveled. Yet Peck's own life was in turmoil. While his readers, and those who attended his spiritual workshops and talks, told him how his words had helped them make decisions about their marriages, careers, insecurities and self-doubts, in 1992 one woman told Life magazine that after one spiritual group session she had been seduced by Peck.M. Scott Peck's The Road Less Traveled began with the words, "Life is difficult." He made it difficult for his family, so difficult that only two of his three children attended his funeral. Arthur Jones' Boomer Guru explores that dichotomy in a deeply researched biography based primarily on hours of recorded interviews with the frank but conflicted guru. This biography of "the nation's shrink" is that rare account: a psychiatrist on the couch. Peck's The Road Less Traveled had more than 10 million "boomer" readers. The book spent more than a decade on the New York Times Best Seller List, longer than any other book by a living author in that category. On the 10th anniversary of Peck's death, this candid biography of the boomer guru is an intriguing recap of both the times and the man.
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