# What's the difference between guilt and shame?

- Institution: TED
- Department: How to Deal with Difficult Feelings
- Speaker: June Tangney
- Year: 2021
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Medicine and health, Psychology and the brain
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/june_tangney_what_s_the_difference_between_guilt_and_shame)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

We all experience feelings of guilt or shame at some point. What should we do with them? Clinical psychologist June Tangney differentiates between constructive guilt and crippling shame so that we can learn to better identify and manage our feelings. (This video is part of TED's "How to Deal with Difficult Feelings" series.)

## Lectures

1. [What's the difference between guilt and shame?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/june_tangney_what_s_the_difference_between_guilt_and_shame/36af0b306bf1), 9 min (TED's player)