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Tuesday Afternoon

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4. Gaslighting

Sat Jan 11, 2014, 12:43 PM

Jan 2014

For other uses, see Gaslight (disambiguation).
Ingrid Bergman in the 1944 film Gaslight

Gaslighting is a form of mental abuse in which false information is presented with the intent of making a victim doubt his or her own memory, perception and sanity.[1] Instances may range simply from the denial by an abuser that previous abusive incidents ever occurred, up to the staging of bizarre events by the abuser with the intention of disorienting the victim.

The term "gaslighting" comes from the play Gas Light and its film adaptations. The term is now also used in clinical and research literature.

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What is gaslighting? [View all] cinnabonbon Jan 2014 OP

kind of like when a married man pretends to be "single" ... and then pretends to "want" to Tuesday Afternoon Jan 2014 #1

I suppose you can just call it manipulation. cinnabonbon Jan 2014 #2

the intent to mislead. I think gaslighting is now recognized as a psychological term. Tuesday Afternoon Jan 2014 #3

Oooh, nice! cinnabonbon Jan 2014 #6

Gaslighting Tuesday Afternoon Jan 2014 #4

Yep. cinnabonbon Jan 2014 #5

yep. Tuesday Afternoon Jan 2014 #7

That is the most important. cinnabonbon Jan 2014 #8

The more you know the more subtle has to be the abuser. Some are really into Tuesday Afternoon Jan 2014 #9

True. I suppose it depends on how interested they are in cinnabonbon Jan 2014 #10

kind of like Cat and Mouse ... sometimes they get bored with it all. Tuesday Afternoon Jan 2014 #11

It's an asshole nt ismnotwasm Jan 2014 #12