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

What's happening with them, they experience the parental environment as, as I said, intolerable, unbearable.

overbearing, abusive, domineering, threatening, they need to escape.

But because they lack resources, they lack, they are not efficacious, they don't know how to accomplish things, they are highly dependent on other people for the regulation of their sense of self-worth.

They derive their identity from other people.

They have what I call a hive mind.

Because they are so broken and so damaged to start with,

The only way, the only method of escape they can conceive of is to get rid of these gods who are tormenting them.

So there is a discrepancy between the interpretation of the situation, the interpretation of the environment, the interpersonal relationships, and what's really happening.

These people, these teenagers are immured and immersed in fantasy.

The fantasy is very dark.

and very nightmarish.

And they believe the only way to wake up is to kill the people who they identify as the sources of the fantasy, the sources of a nightmare.

We actually do have studies, quite a few, and they show pretty conclusively that they believe that they will have a different life.

Now, as far as you and I go, prison or mental asylum is a bad alternative.

They would beg to disagree.

Really?

They would consider any change preferable to the status quo.

So the rage and the anger...

are dysregulating in the sense that they remove inhibitions and they cause these teenagers to simply lash out, lose control of themselves, which is very lowered as it is, and they form an identity, a new identity by getting rid of the parents.

It's a kind of externalized, ritualized identity formation.

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