The Road Less Travelled

A bestselling guide to personal growth, love and spiritual development, The Road Less Traveled explores overcoming difficulties, building healthy relationships and achieving greater self-understanding.

Book Specification

• Publisher: Penguin Random House
• Author: M. Scott Peck
• Publication Date: 15 March 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9780099727408
• Dimensions: 11 × 2 × 17.8 cm
• Binding: Paperback
• Pages: 320 pages

Book Details

The Road Less Traveled is a bestselling self-help book that explores the challenges of personal growth, emotional development and meaningful relationships.

Confronting and solving problems can be painful, and many people try to avoid difficulties. However, avoiding problems often creates greater pain and prevents us from growing mentally and spiritually. Drawing heavily on his professional experience as a psychiatrist, Dr M. Scott Peck explains how facing difficulties and accepting the challenges of change can lead to greater self-understanding.

The book explores the nature of loving relationships, including how to recognise genuine compatibility, distinguish dependency from love, develop independence and become one's own person. Peck also discusses how to become a more sensitive and understanding parent.

Thought-provoking and practical, The Road Less Traveled offers insights into personal responsibility, emotional maturity, love and spiritual growth, making it a valuable guide for readers seeking meaningful and lasting change.

Key Features

• A bestselling self-help and personal development book.
• Written from the perspective of an experienced psychiatrist.
• Explores the connection between pain, personal growth and self-understanding.
• Discusses how confronting problems can support mental and spiritual development.
• Provides insights into love and healthy relationships.
• Explains how to distinguish dependency from genuine love.
• Explores the importance of becoming one's own person.
• Offers guidance on developing greater sensitivity as a parent.
• Encourages readers to embrace difficulties and the process of change.
• Ideal for readers interested in personal growth, psychology, relationships and spirituality.

About the Author

M. Scott Peck was an American psychiatrist and bestselling author. He graduated from Harvard with a BA degree and earned his MD from Case Western Reserve University. He also served in the U.S. Army, rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel.

Peck was the author of the popular book People of the Lie. He also founded the Foundation for Community Encouragement (FCE), which promoted community formation and sought to bring people together to address humanity's challenges and prevent self-destruction.