Seriously, I find this analogy interesting. After seeing those jailhouse visit tapes endlessly where G & A tell Casey how "gorgeous" she is, call her sweetheart and placate her to a nauseating degree, and after listening to all the tributes they threw to her feet yesterday during her murdered daughter's memorial and after hearing LP, Rick, Shirley and others recount how Casey was always allowed to get away with anything, it nagged me what this was all reminding of.
Now I remember. There is a classic, classic episode of the Twilight Zone called "It's A Good Life". It's the one with the little boy with supernatural powers that he uses to torment and control everyone who crosses his path. His family and the town are horrified by him and totally under his control. If they displease him in any way he sends them "to the cornfield". Everyone tiptoes around the kid, placating him, telling him what a good little boy he is. If you're remembering the episode now, then you're might be struck at the parallel to the way everyone in the Anthony family placates Casey, allows her to bully them with her little tantrums and demands. Casey controls that family to the extent that even while she is jailed they are placating her from the pulpit. "The Cornfield" in Casey's case is alienating the Anthonys from her love, although I am hard put to explain why they want it.
There is a great synopsis of the episode here comparing it to the way the family of a narcissist operates.
http://www.halcyon.com/jmashmun/npd/goodlife.html
It is well worth the read, imo, in a more entertaining way than most psychological articles.
Creepy little notes: the demonic kid who sends people and pets who displease him "to the cornfield" is named
Anthony and he's from Ohio.
An interesting aside: within that article is a link to a lengthy article about the hateful Phelps family of the so-called Westboro Baptist Church. If you read it, be prepared to be horrified at the stories two of his sons tell of his extreme abuse of his children. I couldn't read it all.