Abstract

A confusion exists between the aims of psychotherapy of diminishing self—reproach, on the one hand, and increasing the experience of personal responsibility, on the other. In order to clarify this problem a distinction is made between moral responsibility, central to self—reproach, and psychological responsibility or agency. Self—reproach is shown to be inimical to the experience of psychological responsibility, with reference to psychotherapy of a case of severe obsessive self—reproach.

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