I call this pattern malignant victimhood: what happens when people have been hurt and have turned that hurt outward—instead of metabolizing it—until they have become the thing that hurt them. Victims who prey on their kind, going for the throat at every opportunity. Cannibals. https://cristinagherghelvox.blogspot.com/2026/09/not-born-for-this-world-on-aphantasia.html

The book examines narcissistic abuse through a framework that extends beyond conventional trauma terminology, arguing that chronic psychological manipulation can affect the very cognitive resources through which a person represents themselves, regulates themselves, imagines possibilities, and maintains a sense of direction. https://booksbycristinagherghel.blogspot.com/2026/09/the-sabotage-of-declared-preference-why.html