Road less travelled

He also served in the U.

Finally, at age 15, during the spring holiday of his third year, he came home and refused to return to the school, whereupon his parents sought psychiatric help for him and he was much to his amusement in later life diagnosed with depression and recommended for a month's stay in a psychiatric hospital unless he chose to return to school.

He also served in the U. Army and rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel. His Army assignments included stints as chief of psychology at the Army Medical Center in OkinawaJapan, and assistant chief of psychiatry and neurology in the office of the surgeon general in Washington, D.

Peck's works combined his experiences from his private psychiatric practice with a distinctly religious point of view. In his second book, People of the Liehe wrote, "After many years of vague identification with Buddhist and Islamic mysticism, I ultimately made a firm Christian commitment — signified by my non-denominational baptism on the ninth of March One of his views was that people who are evil attack others rather than face their own failures.

In latealmost 25 years after FCE was first founded, the organization resumed functioning, and began offering community building and training events in Inthey were separated and later divorced.

Peck then married Kathleen Kline Yates. Death[ edit ] Peck died at his home in Connecticut on September 25,after suffering from Parkinson's disease and pancreatic [8] and liver duct cancer.

Fuller Theological Seminary houses the archives of his publications, awards, and correspondence. 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.

The book consists of four parts. In the first part Peck examines the notion of disciplinewhich he considers essential for emotionalspiritualand psychological healthand which he describes as "the means of spiritual evolution".

The elements of discipline that make for such health include the ability to delay gratificationaccepting responsibility for oneself and one's actions, a dedication to truthand "balancing". In the second part, Peck addresses the nature of love, which he considers the driving force behind spiritual growth.

He contrasts his own views on the nature of love against a number of common misconceptions about love, including: Peck argues that "true" love is rather an action that one undertakes consciously in order to extend one's ego boundaries by including others or humanity, and is therefore the spiritual nurturing—which can be directed toward oneself, as well as toward one's beloved.

In the third part Peck deals with religionand the commonly accepted views and misconceptions concerning religion. He recounts experiences from several patient case histories, and the evolution of the patients' notion of God, religion, atheism —especially of their own "religiosity" or atheism—as their therapy with Peck progressed.

The fourth and final part concerns " grace ", the powerful force originating outside human consciousness that nurtures spiritual growth in human beings.

In order to focus on the topic, he describes the miracles of health, the unconsciousand serendipity —phenomena which Peck says: Random Housewhere the then little-known psychiatrist first tried to publish his original manuscript, turned him down, saying the final section was "too Christ-y.

The book took off only after Peck hit the lecture circuit and personally sought reviews in key publications. Later reprinted in paperback inThe Road first made best-seller lists in — six years after its initial publication.

He described four aspects of discipline: Sacrificing present comfort for future gains. Accepting responsibility for one's own decisions.

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