Dr. Scott Peck was born on May 22,
1936 in New York City, the younger of two sons to David Warner Peck, a
prominent lawyer and jurist, and his wife Elizabeth Saville. Dr. Scott Peck
married Lily Ho in 1959, and they had three children.
Dr. Scott Peck's background was in
medicine, psychiatry, and theology and Dr. Scott Peck was a nationally
recognized authority on the relationship between religion and science, and
the science of psychology in particular. In 1992 Dr. Peck was selected by
the American Psychiatric Association as a distinguished psychiatrist
lecturer "for his outstanding achievement in the field of psychiatry as an
educator, researcher and clinician."
