Herant Katchadourian on Guilt
Herant Katchadourian, emeritus professor of psychiatry and human biology at Stanford University, has taught over 20,000 students over the years but closed his teaching career with a seminar on guilt. “Frankly, I didn’t know that students would be interested in the topic. It’s gloomy and heavy,” he said. “But they were.” The class led him to write Guilt: The Bite of Conscience, a multidisciplinary exploration of the nagging subject. He chatted with Zócalo about where guilt comes from, why some people feel it differently, and why even our online avatars …
