Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-187) and index.
Revenge: an overview / Salman Akhtar -- Green wounds: revenge as preserver of the self / Kerry Kelly Novick -- Revenge and reparation: thoughts about the treatment of a boy and his family / Barbara Shapire -- "As the twig is bent, so grows the tree": reparation, rage, and resynthesis / Daniel M.A. Freeman -- Revenge and reparation: loss and restitution / Frederick Fisher -- The spectrum of narcissistic transferences / Otto Kernberg -- Cautionary tales: a private practitioner's experience treating severe narcissistic pathology / Melvin Singer -- Three literary characters in search of revenge / Eve Holwell -- The ubiquitous nature of revenge: biopsychocultural perspectives / Rama Rao Gogineni and April E. Fallon -- Narcissism, rage, and revenge: concluding commentary / Henri Parens.