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Christian Psychiatrist M. Scott Peck (1936 – 2005) wrote the definitive book on Barack Hussein Obama in 1983, although, of course, he never met him or mentioned him. The title of Peck’s book is “The People of the Lie: The Hope for Healing Human Evil.” While Dr. Peck is more widely known for “The Road Less Travelled,” his “The People of the Lie” remains one of the most important scientific contributions to the study of the origins of evil. Dr. Peck connected evil people directly with the bane of malignant narcissism. To him, the evil are “the people of the...

LOS ANGELES - Author M. Scott Peck, who wrote the best-seller "The Road Less Traveled" and other novels, has died. He was 69. Peck died Sunday at his home in Connecticut, longtime friend and Los Angeles publicist Michael Levine said. He had suffered from pancreatic and liver duct cancer. Born in New York City, Peck received his bachelor's degree from Harvard College in 1958 and his doctorate from the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in 1963. He served in the U.S. Army between 1963 and 1972. Peck spent more than 10 years in the private practice of psychiatry...

Glimpses of the Devil, reviewed by David Neff GLIMPSES OF THE DEVIL by M. Scott Peck Free Press, 288 pp.; $26.00 When psychiatrist and bestselling author Scott Peck published People of the Lie in 1983, I took special notice. His brief account of exorcisms in one chapter was consistent with my observations of two attempts to exorcise demons that plagued a woman I had been counseling. So I was also primed to read Peck's newest book, Glimpses of the Devil, in which he speaks in-depth for the first time about two cases of possession and exorcism. Indeed, he claims this...

When psychiatrist and bestselling author Scott Peck published People of the Lie in 1983, I took special notice. His brief account of exorcisms in one chapter was consistent with my observations of two attempts to exorcise demons that plagued a woman I had been counseling. So I was also primed to read Peck's newest book, Glimpses of the Devil, in which he speaks in-depth for the first time about two cases of possession and exorcism. Indeed, he claims this is the first account of possession and exorcism written by a medical scientist. The Serpent Peck's book is a good read....

<p>Louisiana College faculty issued a statement Friday in disapproval of the school's new screening procedure for all class materials, calling it "a policy of censorship."</p> <p>The faculty believes the need to speak out after a whirlwind of academic freedom controversy has brought national media attention to the college over the new policy, said Bill Simpson, elected faculty delegate.</p>