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

Who gets called a psychopath and who just refused to perform grief the right way?

Part 4 of Shannon and Cathy's decade-by-decade Female Psychopath Series lands in the 2010s; a decade that gave us some of the most psychologically complex and culturally fascinating dangerous women in both true crime history and popular culture.

This episode covers:

True crime:

• Jodi Arias — the courtroom theatrics, the manipulation, the clinical picture behind one of the most watched murder trials in American history
• Joanna Dennehy — Britain's rare female serial killer and what her case tells us about female violence
• Gypsy Rose Blanchard — Munchausen by proxy, coercive control, and an almost impossible story of survival and culpability
• Katherine Knight — Australia's most notorious female killer and the psychology behind decades of escalating violence

Fiction:

• Villanelle (Killing Eve) — making psychopathy look like the most interesting personality on television
• Amy Dunne (Gone Girl) — redefining what a female villain could be
• Cersei Lannister (Game of Thrones) — weaponizing every system around her
• Rose Armitage (Get Out) — the smile that hid everything

Therapists Shannon and Cathy bring their clinical lens to the real and the fictional — unpacking what these women have in common, where they diverge, and what the 2010s' cultural obsession with dangerous women tells us about female psychology, female rage, and female power.

Part 4 of 4. The Female Psychopath Series concludes here.

Previously in the series:

• Part 1: Female Psychopaths of the 1980s (S8E4)
• Part 2: Female Psychopaths of the 1990s (S8E9)
• Part 3: Female Psychopaths of the 2000s (S8E18)

Two licensed therapists — one forensic psychologist, one clinical marriage and family therapist — analyzing the psychology of real killers and fictional villains so you don't have to wonder what's actually going on.

Until then... sleep safe. 😴

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