The Chicago Hypnotist

09/05/2026

THE NEW WITCH HUNT 🔥

Four hundred years ago we had HERETICS. Then witches. Today we have NARCISSISTS. Same village. Same bonfire. We just added Wi-Fi.

A lawyer discovers that jurisprudence is terribly complicated, so apparently human behavior looks easier. Someone else turns narcissism into a recipe for postwar bread: three signs of gaslighting, two cups of love bombing, a pinch of trauma, knead vigorously and voilà — your husband is a narcissist.

Giordano Bruno would recognize the atmosphere immediately. The truly magnificent part is the audience: thousands of people diagnosing husbands, wives, mothers, fathers and ex-lovers because somebody with a ring light taught them seven “signs.” Clinical assessment? Training? Differential diagnosis? Context? Please. We have REELS.

The irony deserves its own psychiatric textbook: strangers confidently diagnosing strangers while displaying absolute certainty about minds they have never examined.

Perhaps we should introduce another diagnosis: INTERNET EXPERT SYNDROME. Primary symptom: believing that watching twenty videos about narcissism qualifies you to identify a personality disorder. Secondary symptom: diagnosing everybody except yourself.

After all, only the person hiding the bodies knows exactly where they are buried. 😈

Welcome to the Great Narcissist Witch Hunt. The bonfire is digital now. The hysteria remains wonderfully human.

09/05/2026

THE NEW WITCH HUNT 🔥

Four hundred years ago we had HERETICS. Then witches. Today we have NARCISSISTS. Same village. Same bonfire. We just added Wi-Fi.

A lawyer discovers that jurisprudence is terribly complicated, so apparently human behavior looks easier. Someone else turns narcissism into a recipe for postwar bread: three signs of gaslighting, two cups of love bombing, a pinch of trauma, knead vigorously and voilà — your husband is a narcissist.

Giordano Bruno would recognize the atmosphere immediately. The truly magnificent part is the audience: thousands of people diagnosing husbands, wives, mothers, fathers and ex-lovers because somebody with a ring light taught them seven “signs.” Clinical assessment? Training? Differential diagnosis? Context? Please. We have REELS.

The irony deserves its own psychiatric textbook: strangers confidently diagnosing strangers while displaying absolute certainty about minds they have never examined.

Perhaps we should introduce another diagnosis: INTERNET EXPERT SYNDROME. Primary symptom: believing that watching twenty videos about narcissism qualifies you to identify a personality disorder. Secondary symptom: diagnosing everybody except yourself.

After all, only the person hiding the bodies knows exactly where they are buried. 😈

Welcome to the Great Narcissist Witch Hunt. The bonfire is digital now. The hysteria remains wonderfully human.

09/05/2026

THE GREAT NARCISSIST WITCH HUNT 🧙‍♀️

We have entered the age of psychological hysteria, a magnificent digital village where everyone is hunting everyone else and the word NARCISSIST is shouted with approximately the same scientific precision with which, four centuries ago, somebody shouted WITCH!

Your husband becomes quiet during an argument? Narcissist. Your girlfriend wants space? Manipulator. Your colleague disagrees with you? Gaslighting. Your mother criticizes your haircut? Toxic parent. Somebody looks at you strangely in the elevator? Give Instagram forty-eight hours and there will be a coach explaining the childhood trauma behind Floor 17.

Then I listen to the advice and enter another dimension: “If he says THIS, remain silent”; “If she looks away, observe carefully”; “Never answer immediately”; “Say these THREE WORDS and watch what happens.”

My God, they sound like tarot readers from a lost circus, except Madame Zelda had better curtains and occasionally admitted she was guessing.

Human beings have become tarot cards: draw three and discover that your husband is a covert narcissist with avoidant attachment who has been gaslighting the refrigerator.

This isn’t education; it is witch hunting with Wi-Fi, where fear generates clicks, labels generate followers and ordinary human imperfection becomes an endless diagnostic carnival.

Real psychological disorders deserve knowledge, training and intellectual humility, precisely because they are real. Meanwhile the circus keeps selling certainty to frightened people.

Step right up! Narcissists everywhere! Only $299 to learn the ten secret signs!

Pippin charges nothing.

He just thinks humans have lost their minds.

09/03/2026

THE INTERNET PSYCHOLOGY DEGREE 🎓

Apparently psychology has become the easiest profession on Earth. No university, no social psychology, no supervised training, no years spent actually studying human behavior; all you need is a microphone, a ring light and enough confidence to speak about subjects you barely understand.

Then the diagnosis begins: your ex is a narcissist, your boss is a bully, your mother is toxic, disagreement is gaslighting, silence is manipulation and somebody forgetting to answer your message probably reveals an attachment disorder.

What a magnificent business model: frighten people, give ordinary human behavior a frightening psychological label, then sell them the solution.

Real narcissistic personality disorder exists, real abuse exists, real trauma exists, which makes this online witch hunt even more ridiculous. Psychology is complicated because human beings are complicated; reducing either to seven warning signs and three magical sentences is entertainment dressed as expertise.

Pippin has therefore entered the profession. He has no psychology degree, no clinical training and no supervision, but he does have a podcast.

At least he knows he’s a dog. 🐾🎙️

09/03/2026

09/03/2026

THE NEW UNIVERSITY OF INSTAGRAM

Apparently becoming an expert in human behavior has become remarkably easy: forget psychology, forget social psychology, forget years of study, supervised practice, clinical experience and the rather inconvenient necessity of actually understanding how human beings behave; buy a microphone, place a ring light in front of your face, adopt the expression of Socrates contemplating mortality and announce: “If someone disrespects you, DO NOT REACT.”

Extraordinary. Human civilization waited thousands of years for a man with a podcast to rediscover self-control and the prefrontal cortex, and naturally this revelation cannot be free; it must become a twelve-module course for $2,800.

The business model becomes even better when ordinary human behavior is transformed into pathology. Your ex was selfish? Narcissist. Someone disagrees with you? Gaslighting. Your colleague is an as***le? Bully. Someone stopped answering your messages? Toxic. Suddenly we are living inside a psychiatric safari populated by narcissists, manipulators, predators, bullies and traumatized victims, while the coach stands conveniently at the entrance selling maps.

Real narcissistic personality disorder exists, real abuse exists, real bullying exists, which is precisely why this ridiculous witch hunt deserves to be mocked; human beings have always been selfish, generous, insecure, arrogant, loving, jealous, stupid, brilliant and occasionally unbearable. We once learned to navigate this complicated zoo through education, judgment, manners, emotional regulation and experience.

Today apparently we need a coach.

Pippin has equivalent qualifications, a microphone and his own podcast, with one important advantage over many internet experts: he admits he’s a dog.