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American J. of Psychiatry, 106, 10, April, 1950, pp. 744–47.
Not all sense of guilt is neurotic, and not to feel guilty is not necessarily a sign of normality. The psychiatrist is not concerned primarily with moral problems, but he does not reject them and he cannot and does not function without moral values. Analysts want to relieve their patients of the sense of guilt for things they have never really or wittingly done, but they leave their patients with a conscious sense of guilt for things they have really done.