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

As you are, you're inadequate.

As you are, you're ruining my life.

That's a message.

And so the child says, okay, dad, I'm going to suspend myself.

I'm going to kill myself.

I'm going to not be.

And I'm going to become anything you want me to be, except myself.

And so the child has a huge experience with dissociation.

Huge.

Dissociation has become the main tool, actually.

And of course, one way to accomplish dissociation is substance abuse.

When you drink to excess, you dissociate.

It's called blackout or brownout.

I mean, brownout is previous stage.

When you do drugs, in some types of drugs, there is dissociation.

So this is artificially induced dissociation.

But the child also does it habitually, internally, generated from the inside.

Association becomes a defense.

And then when the moment comes to get rid of the parents who are the source of the dissociation, that would be the ultimate and last dissociation, the last frontier beyond which the child firmly believes that they're finally going to become.

And that is why all of them say, I thought I would have a different life.

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