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American psychiatrist

Morgan Scott Peck (1936–2005) was an American psychiatrist and best selling author who wrote the book The Road Less Traveled, published in 1978.

Peck was born on May 22, 1936, in New York City, the son of Zabeth (née Saville) and David Warner Peck, an attorney and judge. His parents were Quakers. Peck was raised a Protestant (his paternal grandmother was from a Jewish family, but Peck's father identified himself as a WASP and not as Jewish). His parents sent him to the prestigious boarding school Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire, when he was 13.

Peck served in administrative posts in the government during his career as a psychiatrist. He also served in the US Army and rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel. His army assignments included stints as chief of psychology at the Army Medical Center in Okinawa, Japan, and assistant chief of psychiatry and neurology in the office of the surgeon general in Washington, DC. p11). One of his views was that people who are evil attack others rather than face their own failures. Peck acknowledged having extramarital affairs and being estranged from two of his children. In 2004, just a year before his death, Peck divorced Lily and married Kathleen Kline Yates. Peck says that our aim must be to eliminate neurotic suffering and to work through our legitimate suffering to achieve our individual goals. as well as in a chapter of The Road Less Traveled. Peck characterizes evil as a malignant type of self righteousness in which there is an active rather than passive refusal to tolerate imperfection (sin) and its consequent guilt. On the other hand, those who have crossed the line and are irretrievably evil are described as having malignant narcissism. Some of Peck's conclusions about the psychiatric condition that he designates as "evil" are derived from his close study of one patient he names Charlene. It has been argued that it is not possible to find formal records to establish the veracity of Father Malachi Martin's described cases of possession, as all exorcism files are sealed by the Archdiocese of New York, where all but one of the cases took place.