The Storyteller: Narcissist's Playbook

Claire's Story Part 2 - In Sam's own words and explicitly stating he is speaking about himself, he tells his audience that "only severely mentally ill, broken, damaged traumatised women will succumb" to his psychology and sexuality. Succumb means to lose the determination to oppose something, accept defeat. It can also mean to die or suffer badly from an illness. The illness in this story is Sam's Vaknin's sick mind. After more than a month of video calls grooming a woman who'd reached out for help in a suicidal state, Sam had sexually assaulted her in a hotel room and then manipulated her to stay. He was in her head, making her wrong for wanting to leave and then quickly triangulating her with another women - a similar, but far superior and more successful one. The custom-made trap was set and Claire's disintegration began.

Claires's Story Part 1 - Two weeks into the podcast's release, the victim who had reached out to Ann and brought the women together, sent a text to investigative journalist Isla Traquair offering to take part. Sam Vaknin's tailor-made abuse had left it's mark on her and it wasn't until listening to Ann's story, did Claire decide she was ready to talk. But her main motivation was to help stop her abuser from harming more women and believed another voice would strengthen the chorus to seek justice.
TRIGGER WARNING - this episode contains an account of a sexual assault and the topic of suicide.
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Old wounds - Australian director Ian Walker had to leave a hotel in the middle of the night and fly home from Europe due to the abuse he suffered while filming Sam Vaknin for the documentary I, Psychopath in the late 2000s. When Isla Traquair reached out to him in 2025 to inform him of her investigation, seeing Sam Vaknin's name on the email brought back awful memories. In this fascinating interview Ian and Isla look back on his experiences and examine what has happened since. The most chilling aspect, Ian received similar claims from women two decades ago that Sam had been abusing them under the guise of therapy.
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The Wolf - there's no coming back from this explosive episode as the fake professor Sam Vaknin damns himself with his own words. For a man who claims to have an IQ higher than Einstein, he's been incredibly careless. There is no more hiding in plain sight. We see him, we see his lies, we see his stupidity and like he feared, the outcomes will be horrible. 
Following the recording of this episode, it was learned that no scholarship has been awarded through the foundation and the accounts showed a balance of 200 Euro. 
Although this is conclusion of the main investigation there is a lot more to come including another victim who has offered her voice after listening to the podcast. Also Ian Walker director of I, Psychopath, Professor Graham Hill, Evan Rachel Wood, Doug Buggle, HG Tudor, Lee Hammock and more. There are also two special analysis episodes filmed in London where Isla, Richard and Mark go through the early part of Sam Vaknin's smear campaign. 
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Herculean Task - Sam Vaknin appealed to the filmmakers to focus their documentary on differentiating between the credentialed and the non-credentialed and goes as far to say it should be a crime to talk about narcissism online unless you are licensed. Investigative journalist Isla Traquair took on that challenge and in what is one of the most crucial episodes in the entire series, she unravels the fake persona he's spent a lifetime building. By the end of the episode, she tears it down leaving no doubt who and what Sam Vaknin is. 
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