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Criminal Psychology • Horror Cinema • Dark Minds - Dive deep into the psychology of killers and the art of fear. Terror Talk explores true crime stories, serial killers, horror films and the dark minds behind them—led by therapists Shannon and Cathy.
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PSYCHOLOGY: Are You Dating a Psychopath? Love Bombing and Gaslighting (opens the original)
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Have you ever left a relationship more confused about yourself than about the person you were with? ⚠️ Trigger warning: This episode includes discussions of emotional abuse, coercive control, gaslighting and intimate partner violence. Listener discretion is advised. Therapists Shannon and Cathy open Season 9 with the question everyone asks and almost nobody asks clinically: what does it actually mean to call someone a psychopath, and what does it feel like to be in a relationship with one? This
TRUE CRIME DOCUMENTARIES: Charles Manson, EDP445 & The Hillside Strangler (opens the original)
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Six documentaries, two therapists, and one question running under all of them: what does the camera do to a case? Shannon takes Betrayal: Dirty Secrets, EDP445: The Sick Mind, and Joe Berlinger's Conversations with a Killer: The Charles Manson Tapes. Cathy takes The Hillside Strangler, Maternal Instinct, and The Crash. ⚠️ Trigger warning: This episode includes discussions of child predation, violence against a pregnant woman, sexual assault and murder. Listener discretion is advised. SHANNON'S T
SHRINK CHAT: Disclosure Day, Obsession, Evil Dead Burn, The Shards (opens the original)
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What does horror actually do to the person watching it and do this season's releases earn the reaction they're going for? Season 9 of Shrink Chat opens with Evil Dead Burn , the series Silo and The Shards , and a run through the rest of what's landed lately: Disclosure , Obsession , They Will Kill You and Passenger . Therapists Shannon and Cathy review them the way nobody else does, not on scares per minute, but on whether the psychology holds up: what the films get right about fear, grief, cont
CULTS: Heaven's Gate, the Zizians & Jonestown Part 1 (opens the original)
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How does a nurse, a teacher, a software engineer end up participating in mass death? Shannon walks Cathy through the clinical pathway that turns ordinary people into killers using Heaven's Gate, the Zizians, and Jonestown to prove the same mechanism runs every single time. ⚠️ Trigger warning: This episode includes discussions of mass suicide, murder, death by poisoning including the deaths of children, cult coercion and coercive control. Listener discretion is advised. Season 9 opens with the qu
SHRINK CHAT: Iron Lung, The Backrooms, Spider Noir - Horror Reviews 2026 (opens the original)
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What does it mean to be scared in 2026? Horror Facts with Cath is back — and so is the watch list that somehow kept growing. This month Shannon and Cathy work through thirteen titles across film and series, from a claustrophobic submarine nightmare and a wedding week that was never going to end well, to a spider in a 1930s trench coat and a medical examiner who doesn't know when to quit. This episode covers: Film: Iron Lung — claustrophobic, gorgeous, more blood than any horror film in history T
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