In The Psychology of Feeling Sorry, Randall links contemporary psychological work on concepts of guilt, remorse and revenge with religious doctrine.

Can feeling genuinely sorry enable an important healing experience? Can relieving the weight of guilt restore a general sense of self-worth? Can an individual's

"Fresh and useful . . . excellent practical advice . . . thorough and lucid . . . will be welcomed by many who have struggled to ask forgiveness and to forgive.

A founder of the field of evolutionary medicine uses his decades of experience as a psychiatrist to provide a much-needed new framework for making sense of ment

This volume reports on the growing body of knowledge on shame and guilt, integrating findings from the authors' original research program with other data emergi