One piece that may be useful for the puzzle: Approaching this from the perspective of psychology and familial trauma has helped me understand and discuss. Someo

One piece that may be useful for the puzzle: Approaching this from the perspective of psychology and familial trauma has helped me understand and discuss. Someone close to me had a clinically diagnosed narcissistic sociopath parent. Literature on working with trauma and how to work with the consequences of psychologically hostile parents helps to understand the model. The narcissist-sociopath model is very simple and there's kind of always the same underlying base behavioral script. This is fortunate, because it can be easily simulated by a normally working mind once we are trained to do it. It's very unintuitive if we are caught unaware.