Psychobabble

About Psychobabble

Psychiatrist analyzing how cultural trends and modern therapy incentivize dysfunction. hannahspier.substack.com

Publisher

Hannah Spier, MD

Category

society & culture · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

15 Aug 2023

Latest episode

19 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

104 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   19 Oct 2026

   #95. Why Female Psychopaths Are So Hard to Recognize

   I'm joined by Dr Fiona Girkin, a researcher specialising in female psychopathy and dark personality traits, whose doctoral research examined workplace bullying in the community services sector. We discuss relational aggression, weaponised victimhood, revenge, parental alienation and the difference between everyday selfishness and calculated abuse. We also explore whether feminism, social media and a lack of accountability are rewarding destructive behaviour and how to recognise warning signs in workplaces, friendships and romantic relationships.

2. 

   12 Oct 2026

   #94. She Said It Was Consensual. Then They Called It Trauma.

   The Cornell 7 case has become about much more than what happened that night. Jane Doe's lawyer says her behavior afterward — including initially describing the encounter as consensual — is a "textbook" trauma response. Across social media, people are making the same argument: contradictory behavior after an alleged assault doesn't undermine the trauma narrative; it may actually confirm it. But is that what the research shows? In this episode, I look at how the definition of trauma has expanded, what PTSD was originally designed to describe, what studies of forcible rape survivors actually find, and what happens when a psychiatric explanation becomes so flexible that almost no evidence can count against it.

3. 

   9 Oct 2026

   #93. The Cornell 7: How This Happened.

   The Cornell 7 case raises a bigger question: is there any moral category left between "illegal" and "good"? Listen ad-free by subscribing on Substack: https://hannahspier.substack.com/podcast

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3.0 / 5

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