Michael Breslin explores the essential role of guilt in shaping a healthy personality. Defining a healthy personality as one that exceeds average self-actualization and compassionate interactions, he discusses guilt as a uniquely human experience stemming from moral transgressions. Guilt serves as an emotional indicator highlighting deviations from personal values and ideals. Through insights from scholarly works, he illustrates how guilt, though often uncomfortable, is vital for personal growth and improving one's character by guiding corrective actions towards a more fulfilled existence.
According to Sydney M. Jourard and Ted Landsman in Healthy Personality, "the term healthy personality is used to describe those ways of being that surpass the average in actualization of self and in compassionate relationships with others."
Willard Gaylin, MD, emphasizes in Feelings: Our Vital Signs that guilt "is the emotion that shapes so much of our goodness and generosity. It signals us when we have transgressed from codes of behavior which we personally want to sustain."
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