The five types of stalker and how to spot them
All In The Mind
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4.4 • 785 Ratings
🗓️ 7 September 2024
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Earlier this year, the Netflix program Baby Reindeer brought stalking firmly back into the zeitgeist - sparking discussion about the psychology of people who stalk and the impact it has on victims.
So what goes on in the mind of a stalker? How do the various types, from incompetent suitor to intimacy seeker, differ? And what should you do if you think you have a stalker?
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| 0:00.0 | ABC Listen, podcasts, radio, news, music, and more. |
| 0:07.4 | You know how Hollywood loves a stalking story? |
| 0:11.0 | Like from Fatal Attraction to I Know What You did last summer, to the TV series You. |
| 0:16.7 | There is a decades-long fascination with this kind of behavior. |
| 0:20.6 | And the Netflix smash-hit series Baby Rainier is just the latest pop culture entry to bring stocking right back into the zeitgeist. |
| 0:31.6 | So you're a comedian? |
| 0:32.6 | Sort. |
| 0:33.6 | It's not going well. |
| 0:34.6 | So is that a question? |
| 0:35.6 | Somebody hurt you, didn't they? |
| 0:38.1 | Who was it? |
| 0:39.8 | Martha, can you let go of my hand now, please? |
| 0:41.0 | Martha, please let go. You dare! |
| 0:43.1 | If you haven't seen the show, it's definitely intense, and it's about one person's |
| 0:48.0 | experience of being stalked over several years, and it's inspired by the real-life experience |
| 0:53.3 | of Crater and star Richard Gadd. |
| 0:56.0 | Although I should mention certain elements of the story are now in dispute, but one of the things |
| 1:02.0 | the series does really effectively is show the insidious day-to-day effects of stalking on a victim, |
| 1:08.0 | like the minutia of the experience and how maddening it can be. |
| 1:13.8 | You just never know, is it going to continue, are they going to stop? Why are they so obsessed |
| 1:20.1 | with me? So in this episode, we're exploring the psychology of stalkers. What drives someone to |
| 1:26.1 | stalk? What it's like to watch baby reindeer if you've been stalked yourself? |
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