A creative, challenging and groundbreaking book that entices the reader to question, to think and to see in new ways-Psychology Today.

Vital Lies, Simple Truths is a penetrating analysis of the ways in which we deceive ourselves. Daniel Goleman draws on evidence of all kinds - from brain function to social dynamics -to reveal how we must distort our most intimate relationships and our day-to-day lives by burying painful insights and memories. This self-deception is our means of psychological self-preservation, the currency of survival which society transacts.

But although self-deception is sometimes benign, it can also be angerous and life-diminishing This important book both illuminates and raises challenging questions about a subject central to our psychological existence.