Recently, guilt and shame were topics in a New York Times column by David Brooks (3/15/2016).  When my blog on the same issue appeared a month later, (Blog 4/25/2016), a reader emailed me a copy of those earlier remarks.  Not crucial but immediately evident was a difference in the d

Guilt and shame seem to describe the same human condition. Both reactions arise from having done something wrong.  According to the experts, however, the two are different.  Guilt is a response to a specific action, an event external to an individual.  Stealing a cookie from a shop