We describe the development of a new measure to assess guilt related to concern about harming others. The two versions of the Interpersonal Guilt Questionnaire, a 45-item and 67-item version, include theoretically-based and clinically relevant categories of guilt: survivor guilt, separation/disloyalty guilt, omnipotent responsibility guilt, and self-hate guilt. Preliminary reliability and valid...

Harvill Press. 16/'. This is a terrible book, illuminating in its psychological aspects and the light it throws upon the workings of the immature mind when all external moral motives have been removed or profoundly inhibited. The author was a Soviet waif in the years between 1930 and the outbreak of the Second World War, motherless from infancy but gently and carefully nurtured by a kindly nurs...

For over forty years the dominant view in scholarship has been that Deuteronomy 13 is a composition of the seventh century B.C.E. Remarkable similarities of language and norms exist between the apostasy laws of Deuteronomy 13 and the disloyalty provisions set out in section 10 of the Vassal Treaty of Esarhaddon of 672 B.C.E. The claim has proven especially attractive in light of the wealth of h...

“The Gaudium et spes Constitution does not approach [matrimony] a priori—as the Casti connubii Encyclical did—but, instead, it analyzes reality of matrimony as is reflected in Christian consciousness shaped by teaching Church.” This characteristic sentence, derived from Śląskie Studia Historyczno-Teologiczne [Silesian Studies History and Theology] (1968), which debuted at that time on market th...

The Constitution of the United States is a law for rulers and people, equally in war and in peace, and covers with the shield of its protection all classes of men, at all times, and under all circumstances . . . When peace prevails, and the authority of the government is undisputed, there is no difficulty of preserving the safeguards of liberty . . . but if society is disturbed by civil commoti...