James Kimmel, Jr.

So, for example, let me give you an instance of a child who is being abused by a parent or some other adult. the child is essentially powerless against that parent or adult and is unable to retaliate so what do they do we see that playing out in bullying in school in which they will in order to get revenge eric the gratification of revenge will pick a weaker child

out and and be able to start bullying that child acting out their desire to retaliate and make themselves feel better for what the parent did to them maybe that morning or maybe a week ago you have a very personal relationship to this topic that i'd like you to explain I had a serious victimization experience as a teenager, a bullying experience.

out and and be able to start bullying that child acting out their desire to retaliate and make themselves feel better for what the parent did to them maybe that morning or maybe a week ago you have a very personal relationship to this topic that i'd like you to explain I had a serious victimization experience as a teenager, a bullying experience.

out and and be able to start bullying that child acting out their desire to retaliate and make themselves feel better for what the parent did to them maybe that morning or maybe a week ago you have a very personal relationship to this topic that i'd like you to explain I had a serious victimization experience as a teenager, a bullying experience.

And that kind of put me on a trail to becoming ultimately a lawyer in the professional revenge business, as I call it, because we're paid to help our clients get revenge for the

And that kind of put me on a trail to becoming ultimately a lawyer in the professional revenge business, as I call it, because we're paid to help our clients get revenge for the

And that kind of put me on a trail to becoming ultimately a lawyer in the professional revenge business, as I call it, because we're paid to help our clients get revenge for the

for the grievances and perceived victimizations that they experience in their lives and we're licensed to do that legally and you know we're licensed to prescribe and manufacture and distribute legalized revenge for people so I went into that business in part to continue this

for the grievances and perceived victimizations that they experience in their lives and we're licensed to do that legally and you know we're licensed to prescribe and manufacture and distribute legalized revenge for people so I went into that business in part to continue this

for the grievances and perceived victimizations that they experience in their lives and we're licensed to do that legally and you know we're licensed to prescribe and manufacture and distribute legalized revenge for people so I went into that business in part to continue this

This gratification experience, but it bled over into my personal life and to my family life where I was, you know, just becoming sort of a continual Avenger in a very habitual way and I started to realize when I wanted to cut down because it was making me a pretty awful person and an unhappy person that I wasn't able to or I was only able to for short periods of time and

This gratification experience, but it bled over into my personal life and to my family life where I was, you know, just becoming sort of a continual Avenger in a very habitual way and I started to realize when I wanted to cut down because it was making me a pretty awful person and an unhappy person that I wasn't able to or I was only able to for short periods of time and

This gratification experience, but it bled over into my personal life and to my family life where I was, you know, just becoming sort of a continual Avenger in a very habitual way and I started to realize when I wanted to cut down because it was making me a pretty awful person and an unhappy person that I wasn't able to or I was only able to for short periods of time and

uh... eventually it it pushed me away from the law to sort of save myself and begin to study over the last twenty years the idea of revenge is an addiction just about the time that i started to do that at the yale school of medicine other researchers around the world began to

uh... eventually it it pushed me away from the law to sort of save myself and begin to study over the last twenty years the idea of revenge is an addiction just about the time that i started to do that at the yale school of medicine other researchers around the world began to

uh... eventually it it pushed me away from the law to sort of save myself and begin to study over the last twenty years the idea of revenge is an addiction just about the time that i started to do that at the yale school of medicine other researchers around the world began to

put people in brain scanners and try and figure out what happens inside your brain when you have a grievance or a sense of victimization and then this desire for retaliation emerges in your mind and what's going on there and that's what we've learned so far but the good news is running on a separate track

put people in brain scanners and try and figure out what happens inside your brain when you have a grievance or a sense of victimization and then this desire for retaliation emerges in your mind and what's going on there and that's what we've learned so far but the good news is running on a separate track

put people in brain scanners and try and figure out what happens inside your brain when you have a grievance or a sense of victimization and then this desire for retaliation emerges in your mind and what's going on there and that's what we've learned so far but the good news is running on a separate track

to uh trying to understand what revenge is all about and violence a separate group of researchers were trying to understand what forgiveness is all about and found out some fascinating information which is that forgiveness just imagining what happens when you forget so let me put it this way if you have a grievance and you imagine forgiving it just imagine it you don't tell the other person that you're forgiving it