The Therapist's Encounters with Revenge and Forgiveness Unexplained Phenomena drama therapy and sociometry

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The Therapist's Encounters with Revenge and Forgiveness Unexplained Phenomena drama therapy and sociometryAt some level, most patients who are undergoing therapy have issues of revenge and forgiveness to contend with. Mary Sherrill Durham explores the concepts of vengeance, revenge fantasies, and the granting or withholding of forgiveness, as they are manifested to the therapist during treatment. She argues that revenge is usually expressed in one of two ways, and categorizes patients accordingly into two archetypes. The `Exploited Repressive Individual'