As a student, he was involved in a drunk-driving incident that killed a cyclist. Years later he would become expert in the healing powers of guilt

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• I thought that I was, at the time, a stupid person’: Chris Moore in Nova Scotia.
• arolina Andrade/The GuardianInterviewAs a student, he was involved in a drunk-driving incident that killed a cyclist.
• Years later he would become expert in the healing powers of guiltEmine SanerPsychologist Chris Moore saw first-hand how powerful and complex an emotion it isFuelled by the relief of having finished end-of-year exams, the pleasure of a warm late spring evening and quite a lot of alcohol, the house party was one of those that should have been remembered for all the right reasons.
• At some point, later in the night, Chris Moore and three friends were ready to leave.
• The party was some way out of town – Cambridge – and too far to walk, and, anyway, there was a car, temptingly, in the driveway, its keys in the ignition. Somebody – Moore can’t remember who – suggested they drive back, and with the recklessness of youth and too much beer, they all got in.