Wind up the guilt.(Letters)(Letter to the editor)

From: New Internationalist | Date: March 1, 2008| Author: | Copyright information

'Guilt Complex' (Special Feature, NI 406) reveals a fascinating perspective on how misaligned we are with our own selves. Adam Ma'anit puts forward some cogent reasons for dismantling the 'guilt industry'.

Human beings do seek the happiness of self-actualization. Abraham Maslow describes a pyramid of human needs, with self-actualization at the summit. We do crave--and are entitled to--happiness; but we are overloaded with shoulds and should nots--doctrinal scripts--that do not serve us and drain our ...

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