This comes as a response to totally inaccurate and unprofessionally written article in The New Yorker by Rachel Aviv titled "The Unravelling of a Dancer".
This article is terribly damaging to not only the memory of Sharon Stern and her family but also to all victims who have suffered psychological abuse and manipulation at the hands of psychopaths and cult leaders.
The response below is written by Jennifer who is an expert advocate on behalf of vulnerable and abused cult victims.
"I fully agree that Rachel depicted Kan as the wronged party/victim and that she clearly has no understanding of psychopathy. Therefore, I believe that she should be held accountable for her derogatory, erroneous, and altogether questionable depiction of Sharon and her complete misunderstanding of Kan’s personality disorder/profile; the one is inextricably connected to the other. And, it also proves/shows how skillful psychopaths are at controlling, exploiting, and manipulating others, to achieve their deviant and devious objectives. Therefore, I believe that Rachel’s article has the capacity to do significant harm to individuals who have been victimized by predators. As a result, I have strongly encouraged Tibor to explore the possibility of suing Rachel/The New Yorker for defamation, for the ways in which Sharon and his family were depicted, and for the secondary--but more insidious--discriminatory, anti-victim “tone” that Rachel cultivated, throughout the article. This is particularly concerning, since Rachel is an accomplished and award-winning female journalist/writer who has a demonstrated interest in psychology and mental health issues. Her gross misinterpretation of Sharon’s ordeal and demise reflects a deeply disturbing lack of conscience, empathy, insight, responsibility, or understanding--i.e., an irrefutably psychopathic mentality--which ultimately serves as both an endorsement of and source of protection for—Kan. "
Jennifer/New York, NY
