ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the postulated that all criminality involves revenge and that revenge by being intrinsically talionic is dyadic in nature and the results often represent the antithesis of creativity. It explores cements the progressive importance attributed to triangulation in thinking. The chapter discusses point of the revenge involved in diagnosing untreatability. It was the issue of untreatability which originally created such anxiety in the government that new amendments to the Mental Health Act 1983 had to be formulated. An individual's history illuminates his particular pattern of revenge. The two nurses had been caught up in a form of malignant mirroring, seemingly trapped in a relationship of attack and revenge, which was affecting the night duty team's effectiveness in safely containing the patients. The UK government's position appears to be that the fault line in present legislation is the limiting requirement that patients have to present with a treatable disorder before they can be compulsorily detained.
