The greatest obstacles to healing and growth following intimate betrayal—abuse, infidelity, or deceit—are also the cruelest because they seem so unfair. Guilt is a primary example. In hidden and overt ...

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How can one estimate the severity of a civilization’s addiction to pathological sentiments? Surely one measure is the extent to which the civilization attacks, repudiates, or otherwise undermines its ...

Prince Harry and Meagan Markle, we’re told, are wrestling with guilt over Kate Middleton’s cancer diagnosis. Germany suffers from “Guilt Politics.” Guilt. For many of us, it is our strongest emotion, ...