Psychotherapist Breaks Down The Many Inconsistent And Unhealthy Behaviors Of Karen Read
The Trial Of Karen Read | Justice For John O'Keefe
Tony Brueski
2.2 • 614 Ratings
🗓️ 24 April 2025
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Could Karen Read be using the narcissist’s playbook to manipulate public opinion in her alleged role in the death of John O’Keefe? What begins as a look into a toxic relationship quickly unravels into a psychological maze of contradictions, conspiracy, and chaos.
Tony Brueski teams up with psychotherapist and author Shavaun Scott to dissect the alleged behavioral patterns that mirror classic narcissistic and borderline personality traits—gaslighting, flying monkeys, and shifting stories included. From Karen's changing public narrative and contradictory interviews to the supporters who’ve seemingly abandoned their own lives to champion her cause, nothing is off-limits.
Scott offers a psychological lens on how traits from Cluster B disorders may explain Karen’s erratic statements and emotional responses—without jumping to diagnoses or conclusions. As the conversation digs deeper, the bizarre cult-like fervor of Karen’s defenders is put under the microscope: who are these people, and how did a murder case become a full-blown social crusade?
Is this just another tale of cognitive dissonance gone wild, or something much more dangerous?
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers with Tony Brewski. Yeah, Karen Reid, we're talking about that again today. |
| 0:10.2 | Toxic relationships, specifically, the narcissist playbook, it is almost painfully predictable, |
| 0:17.4 | gaslighting, manipulation, victim playing, and recruiting flying monkeys |
| 0:22.6 | who help them attack or discredit anyone who dares oppose them. |
| 0:27.6 | Keran Reid is accused on the tragic death of John O'Keefe, and from the interesting 10,000-foot perspective |
| 0:35.6 | seems to be following this playbook page by page. |
| 0:41.5 | From controlled narratives and portraying herself as a whistleblower hero to weaponizing her supporters as flying monkeys against critics, Karen's tactics raised some pretty big red flags. |
| 0:53.2 | But how can we recognize these toxic |
| 0:55.3 | behaviors clearly, especially when they hide behind circles of innocence and conspiracy claims? |
| 1:01.1 | Some psychotherapist Chavon Scott is joining us to untangle this messy psychology behind. |
| 1:06.7 | Karen reads, alleged narcissistic traits. We cannot, of course, diagnose her or say she is by any means, |
| 1:13.0 | but we can say, hmm, this behavior seems to kind of resemble this type of behavior |
| 1:18.0 | and let you guys be the judge, but that's kind of where it's at. |
| 1:21.4 | This is all kind of opinion-based and conjecture. |
| 1:24.6 | Chavon, when we're looking at this and just kind of what I've been seeing as this kind of |
| 1:30.5 | textbook, playbook stuff when it comes to narcissistic behavior, especially coming |
| 1:35.6 | out of a narcissistically abusive relationship, I'm speaking on general terms. |
| 1:40.4 | I'm not saying she was in one with John O'Keefe, but if she was theoretically, this seems to |
| 1:45.6 | be following a lot of it, not just in the terms of that the relationship, you know, ended in the |
| 1:50.0 | breakup and all the things that go along with that in that type of dynamic. But John's dead. |
| 1:55.9 | It feels like she's kind of following it almost like he was still alive in terms of the deflection |
| 2:00.6 | and victim blaming |
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