Take just a moment out here for a bit of self-reflection. I don't think so. Now I think this author knows what guilt is, because he feels it like the rest of us do, and it is a very, very telling emotion. It communicates something to us that is true about ourselves and about our world. I'm not a bit surprised that this psychologist and many other people will have guilt staring them in the face and work very hard to try to redefine it into something that is just inconsequential or even something good.
Guilt is empathy.
It's a way of showing that we care. Ladies and gentlemen, you don't need a psychologist to tell you why you feel guilty because, frankly, I think you are a better expert on yourself than he is. I'm going to tell you something that you already know to be true. The notion of guilt is always associated with the notion of morality. It is not some benign thing.