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

And so the child is full of rage, full of anger and resentment.

Yes.

And envies the parental figures because they're perceived throughout life to be perfect, adequate, accomplished.

And this leads to this combination, this unholy combination between rage and envy and an attempt to break out and create a different life.

Fear, a sense of being controlled from the outside, an external locus of control, an interpretation of the parental behavior as abuse, which is not counterfactual.

It's quite true.

It is abusive.

Yeah, this is a name.

We call it pseudo-hostile and pseudo-mutual families.

Families which are internally hostile,

where the dynamics internally involve antagonism and conflict and competition and envy and rage.

But outwardly, the families present mutuality, a united front of cohesion and love and compassion and empathy and affection.

So this contrast, and this is known as pseudo-mutual, pseudo-hostile family.

But I think I don't want to mislead the viewers, at least not on your show.

Yeah, right.

So I want to make clear that I'm describing one type of killer, one type of parasite, and there's another type.

So the type that I've described is the most common.

These are people, these are teenagers without a criminal record,

They're highly prosocial.

They are loners, but they are people pleasers.

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