Confronting and Solving Problems is a Painful Process That Most of Us Attempt to Avoid, yet Avoidance May Result in Even Greater Pain. Using His Own Professional Experience, Dr M. Scott Peck, a Psychiatrist, Suggests Ways in Which Facing Our Difficulties - and Suffering Through the Ensuing Changes - Can Enable Us to Reach a Higher Level of Self-Understanding He Discusses the Nature of Loving Relationships; How to Recognise True Compatibility; How to Distinguish Dependency From Love; How to Become One's Own Person, and How to Be a More Sensitive Parent. This Guide Sets Out to Show You How to Embrace Reality and at the Same Time Achieve Serenity and a Richer Existence.