The Minnesota humorist, Garrison Keillor, once observed that people do bad, horrible, dirty, rotten and despicable things, ...

In its best moments, guilt can protect and guide us, much like the pain that teaches us to avoid a hot stove or sharp objects.

Dear Photo: Guilt is not a very useful emotion. It’s good information, sometimes, but what matters is what we do about the guilt, internally and externally. I know that the complicated process ...

If guilt is movement, powerlessness feels like stopping. And we experience this stopping after we accept that our efforts won’t change how things turn out. For many of us, this is intolerable.