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A world waiting to be born, civility rediscovered, M. Scott Peck

eng

Includes bibliographical references

illustrations

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non fiction

A world waiting to be born

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M. Scott Peck

"M. Scott Peck is known for the profound psychological and spiritual journey on which he has guided millions of readers in his earlier bestselling books." "A WORLD WAITING TO BE BORN is his long-awaited major new work of nonfiction, and it brings us the most urgent messages and the most important guidance toward change Dr. Peck has ever offered." "We are a deeply ailing society. Our illness is incivility, by which Dr. Peck means conduct far more serious than a want of politeness - and going back in time much further than the blatantly gluttonous 1980s. Morally destructive patterns of self-absorption, callousness, manipulativeness, and materialism are so ingrained in our routine behavior that we often do not recognize them. In multiple ways we engage in subtle forms of unconscious hurtfulness toward ourselves and others - ways that have come to be accepted as the norm in American society." "Yet there is a growing awareness that something is seriously wrong. If one of the many powerful themes in this book is that civil behavior has largely vanished from our lives - between individuals, in marriage and family life, in the workplace, and in organizations and businesses - another theme is that change is not only possible, it is achievable. We can learn to restore civility to ourselves and our institutions. We can make the spiritual commitment that is a cornerstone of civility. We have the power and the knowledge to become a truly civil society. This book slows us how." "Using examples from his own life, case histories of patients who sought his psychiatric counsel, and dramatic scenarios of businesses that have made a conscious decision to bring civility to their organizations, Dr. Peck demonstrates where we have gone wrong and how change can be effected. The process is likely to be painful - change hurts - but without change there is no growth, and without growth we are half alive."

civility rediscovered

pt. 1. The Cornerstones of Civility. Ch. 1. Something Is Seriously Wrong: Toward a Redefinition of Civility. Ch. 2. Salvation and Suffering: The Ambiguity of Pain and Disease. Ch. 3. Selves and Systems: The Reality and Illusion of the Self. Ch. 4. The Hole in the Mind: The Lack of Group Consciousness. Ch. 5. Enter God, Stage Left: Ethics and Submission. Ch. 6. Yes, Virginia, There Is Unconditional Love: Covenant. Ch. 7. Tell Them I Came but No One Answered: Vocation. Ch. 8. How Not to Waste Your Time: Prayer (or Whatever You Want to Call It) -- pt. 2. Marriage and the Family. Ch. 9. For the Friction: Marriage and Narcissism. Ch. 10. No Place to Go but Up: Marriage and Power. Ch. 11. Walking the Tightrope: Marriage and Separateness. Ch. 12. Bows and Arrows: Child Raising and Vocation. Ch. 13. Karass or Grandfaloon?: The Family as Organization -- pt. 3. You Gotta Know Your Business. Ch. 14. Who's There?: Roles and Transference. Ch. 15. Selling or Saving Your Soul: Vocation and Business. Ch. 16. May God Have Mercy on You: The Civil Use of Power in Business -- pt. 4. Epiphany: Community in the Workplace. Ch. 17. A Sum Greater Than Its Parts: Community: The Civil Organization. Ch. 18. Rewalking the Tightrope: Ethics and Adversarialism in Business. Ch. 19. The Politics of Transformation: Introducing Community into Business. Ch. 20. No, Virginia, There Is No Quick Fix: Community Maintenance. Ch. 21. Utopia Revisited: The Promise of Community in the Workplace