Guilt—Its Meaning and Significance

reading in psychology, law, ethics and theology, together with an intimate experiencf^ a psychotherapist of the inner life of people bedevilled by guilt feelings. He deals the origin and development of guilt and anxiety, and the contrast between those domina throughout life by a stern super-ego and those who mature to a real sense of personal ponsibility which can accept the objective fact of their guilt. The controversial guilt, responsibility and the law is admirably surveyed, and the inevitable conflict beW psychiatry and the law is clarified. No attempt is made to offer easy solutions, but the^j in which modern psychological knowledge is influencing the approach to crime, and ^ desire to integrate with the law an understanding of the criminal" clearly emerges fron1 discussion. J