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When a Client Is Holding on to Betrayal, Humiliation, or Victimization

How grievance can hijack the brain’s reward circuits

revenge rehearsalrevenge rehearsalSome clients don’t just remember a betrayal.

They replay it. Build a case around it. Imagine the consequences the other person deserves.

The client isn’t simply seeking accountability. They may be rehearsing their grievance story to get a brief hit of relief from the pain, shame, and humiliation it created.

And sometimes, that rehearsal even builds into a desire for retaliation or revenge.

That’s because research suggests grievance can hijack the brain’s rewards circuits – shifting a justified desire for accountability into a drive to get even.

In an all-new live workshop, James Kimmel, Jr., JD, will give you a framework for recognizing and treating revenge-seeking when it becomes compulsive, self-reinforcing, and disruptive to a client’s life.

— New Short Course —

The Neuroscience of Nurturing Grievance

In this workshop, James will show you how to identify escalation markers, differentiate accountability from retaliation, and use strategies to help clients reduce rumination and restore regulation.

Here’s what you’ll discover:

  • How to spot the clinical signs that grievance has become compulsive, reinforcing, or addictive
  • Interrupting rumination, fixation, and “revenge rehearsal” before they intensify
  • How to help clients separate the need for accountability from the urge to punish
  • Disrupting the client’s retaliatory narrative without minimizing the pain they’ve experienced
  • Forgiveness-based tools that do not excuse, minimize, or bypass harm
  • Case examples that show how revenge dynamics can present across clinical settings

This workshop is designed to help you recognize when a client’s grievance stops being about the injury and starts being about the relief that rehearsing it provides – so you can develop a treatment plan to help them move forward.

The live workshop will take place on Friday, September 25 from 1-4pm ET.

James will take questions from participants of the live workshop periodically throughout.

In addition, by registering for the workshop, you’ll also receive the video recording, presentation slides and transcript (and all are yours to keep forever).

Register Here for $197 $97

and get access to the live, interactive session with James Kimmel, Jr., JD, a recording and transcript of the presentation afterward

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3 CE/CME Credits or Clock Hours are available for purchase at checkout.

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Course Instructor

Jame Kimmel jr

James Kimmel, Jr., JD

James Kimmel, Jr., JD is a lawyer, author, Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine, and the founder and co-director of the Yale Collaborative for Motive Control Studies. A breakthrough scholar and expert on revenge and forgiveness, James first identified compulsive revenge seeking as an addiction. He developed the behavioral addiction model of revenge and the brain disease model of revenge addiction as public health approaches to preventing and treating violence. He also founded Revenge Anonymous (RA), a worldwide 12-step self-help program, similar to AA or NA, for people recovering from revenge addiction.

Here's What You'll Get:

Everything is yours to keep forever in your professional library

Check mark Access to the live, interactive session with James Kimmel, Jr., JD
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Check mark A downloadable recording of the program to watch whenever it’s convenient for you
Check mark A professionally formatted transcript of the program

Register Here for $197 $97

and get access to the live, interactive session with James Kimmel, Jr., JD, a recording and transcript of the presentation afterward

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3 CE/CME Credits or Clock Hours are available for purchase at checkout.

Click HERE to get information about CE/CME credits and clock hours as well as speaker disclosures

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We invite you to register for this training program without any risk. Unless you are completely satisfied, we will refund your money. Just let us know within 30 days from the date of registration. We are that confident that you will find this information to be more than you expected.

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Why the Transcript Is Essential:

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  • The transcript makes it easy to go back and double check concepts, citations and names that are mentioned
  • We put in a table of contents to make it easy for you to find the exact part of the webinar you need
  • Having the concepts already written allows you to take notes on how you’re going to use the ideas rather than transcribing the ideas
  • Some people simply learn better by reading than by listening or watching
  • You will be able to print out and share techniques presented in the session with your patients

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We invite you to register for this training program without any risk. Unless you are completely satisfied, we will refund your money. Just let us know within 30 days from the date of registration. We are that confident that you will find this information to be more than you expected.

Register Here for $197 $97

and get access to the live, interactive session with James Kimmel, Jr., JD, a recording and transcript of the presentation afterward

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3 CE/CME Credits or Clock Hours are available for purchase at checkout.

Click HERE to get information about CE/CME credits and clock hours as well as speaker disclosures

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