FEMALE PSYCHOPATH: Jodi Arias, Gypsy Rose & Villanelle - Real & Fictional Women of the 2010s

Why are audiences so fascinated by female psychopaths? In the 2010s the most talked about stories in true crime, film and television kept landing on the same unsettling idea: that psychopathy does not always look violent or chaotic. Sometimes it looks calm, strategic and socially invisible.

This episode continues our Female Psychopaths by the Decade series with the 2010s, the decade that changed how audiences talked about it.

THE REAL CASES

Jodi Arias, and what forensic psychologists mean by emotional congruence

Joanna Dennehy, the Peterborough ditch murders, and the difference between psychopathy and sadism

Miranda Barbour, the Craigslist killing of Troy LaFerrara, and self mythologizing

Katherine Knight, and why her case came roaring back in the 2010s

Gypsy Rose Blanchard, Dee Dee Blanchard, and the collision of victim and perpetrator

THE FICTIONAL ONES

Amy Dunne in Gone Girl, and why the one star reviews say more than the five star ones

Villanelle in Killing Eve, and why Cathy could not finish the show

Rose Armitage in Get Out

Cersei Lannister in Game of Thrones

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Plus the clinical groundwork: cognitive versus emotional empathy, primary versus secondary psychopathy, and why early psychopathy research built its rubric on male prison populations and then failed to recognise women who did not match it.

We are discussing psychopathic traits and behaviors. We are not diagnosing anyone.

Which female psychopath from the 2010s disturbed you the most, and why?

CORRECTIONS AND ADDITIONS

Game of Thrones premiered in April 2011, which puts it squarely inside the decade. Shannon says on air that it started before the 2010s.

Katherine Knight: Cathy hedges on who the remains were served to, and the record is clearer than the hedge. Knight murdered her partner John Price at Aberdeen, New South Wales, in February 2000. She skinned him, cooked portions of his body, and set the table with place settings and notes for his three children. They never arrived and never ate.

Two licensed therapists, one forensic psychologist, one clinical LMFT, take apart the minds behind the crimes.

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