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The authors of this book draw on their extensive experience in areas in which the theme of vengeance has played a key role in mass destruction.1 They visited Rwanda after the genocide and have studied the effects of the hostility against foreigners in their own country, as well the effects of extreme traumatization. In addition, their work with couples has confronted them with the same ubiquitous motto: “Don't get mad, get even.”
The book is divided into parts dealing with three major topics: (1) vengeance and its causes; (2) acts of revenge; (3) renunciation of the recourse to revenge.
In the first section the authors set out to describe the general mechanisms of revenge, omitting therefore the differences that exist in its specific