The Different Drum: Community-Making and Peace - Hardcover

Peck, M. Scott

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 067160192X ISBN 13: 9780671601928

Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 1987

Synopsis

Shows how to share the deepest thoughts and feelings without fear or guilt and how communication builds communities and can be applied on a global scale

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Review

"I have been touched by this inspiring book." (Carly Simon)

About the Author

M. Scott Peck's publishing history reflects his own evolution as a serious and widely acclaimed writer, thinker, psychiatrist, and spiritual guide. Since his groundbreaking bestseller, The Road Less Traveled, was first published in 1978, his insatiable intellectual curiosity has taken him in various new directions with virtually each new book: the subject of healing human evil in People of the Lie (1982), where he first briefly discussed exorcism and possession; the creative experience of community in The Different Drum (1987); the role of civility in personal relationships and society in A World Waiting to Be Born (1993); an examination of the complexities of life and the paradoxical nature of belief in Further Along the Road Less Traveled (1993); and an exploration of the medical, ethical, and spiritual issues of euthanasia in Denial of the Soul (1999); as well as a novel, a children's book, and other works. A graduate of both Harvard University and Case Western Reserve, Dr. Peck served in the Army Medical Corps before maintaining a private practice in psychiatry. For the last twenty years, he has devoted much of his time and financial resources to the work of the Foundation for Community Encouragement, a nonprofit organization that he helped found in 1984. Dr. Peck lives in Connecticut.

Edition details

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Publication date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 067160192X
• ISBN 13: 9780671601928
• Binding: Hardcover