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Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Some people can become addicted to taking revenge, says psychiatrist and legal expert James Kimmel. But they can also be rid of the addiction, he ...

Accounts of such people appear frequently in the newspapers. Some others take revenge indiscriminately on the wrong person or even on an object. One of my patients was caught in the act of clobbering ...

John Winters’ job is so far from the day-to-day workings of polite society it almost doesn’t sound real. It’s the kind of career you could write a PG-13 procedural about—a job too aboveboard for the ...