Sam Vaknin

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472 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Feb 2026 last heard 10 Feb

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The Nerve with Maureen Callahan · Looming Suspicions in Guthrie Search, the DARK Psychology of the Reiner Case, & Origins of Parricide · 10 Feb 2026 podcast

I'm going to not be happy.

there is a perception by the child that the expectation of the parent is for the child to not be.

That the child is some kind of disappointment.

Some kind of a...

an experiment gone awry, some kind of a bankruptcy, a lost endeavor, an enterprise.

So the child says, the only way I can gratify my parent, the only way I can meet my parent's approval is by not being.

And the child is hell-bent on denying itself, repressing itself, reshaping itself.

Child becomes a shape-shifting thing.

And in adolescence, this is exceedingly dangerous because anyhow there is identity diffusion.

At the moment of parasite, at the very second that the child engages in the act, there is dissociation.

The person is no longer there, is absolutely not there.

Something automatic takes over, a kind of animalistic survival instinct, a wish to get rid of this nagging, intrusive, overbearing,

suffocating presence which the parents have become and the child is unable to face what he or she is doing usually it's a he and then the child dissociates completely we know this from studies we've spoken to these children afterwards these killers

And they describe moments of oblivion, lost time, and then they wake up, kind of wake up.

It's a kind of blackout state.

At least that's what the majority of them claim.

And we do know from similar situations, not involving parasites, but we know from traumatic situations that dissociation is very common.

But I think that dissociation in this case is extremely likely because the child learns to adopt dissociation as a survival mechanism, as a coping strategy.

The father broadcasts to the child, as you are, you are not good enough.

As you are, you're a failure.

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