The term "gaslighting" comes from the 1944 film Gaslight, in which a husband tries to make his wife think she's going insane. The gaslighting tactic was also used in the 1971 film The Stepford Wives, in which a husband tries to make his wife think she's losing her mind.


In recent years, the term has been used to describe a form of emotional abuse in which one person tries to make another person question their own reality. Gaslighting can happen in personal relationships, at work, or in political campaigns.


Gaslighting is a form of psychological manipulation that can be very damaging. If you think you're being gaslighted, it's important to reach out for help.


Gaslighting is a form of psychological abuse where the abuser manipulates the victim into doubting their own memory, perception and sanity.

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Gaslighting is a form of psychological abuse that is used to make the victim doubt their own memory, perception, and sanity.

The term was first coined in 1944 by a British playwright and screenwriter named Patrick Hamilton. The name comes from the 1938 stage play Gas Light and its 1940 film adaptation, both of which tell the story of a man who tries to convince his wife she is insane by dimming her gas lights and pretending he does not notice. There are three main types of gaslighting:

1) Situational Gaslighting - where someone persistently denies an event that took place or insists it did not happen at all.

2) Chronic Gaslighting - where someone tells blatant lies about you or something you know to be true.

3) Malicious Gaslighting - where someone makes up false information about you with the intent to make you look bad or insane.

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Gaslighting is a form of psychological abuse in which false information is presented with the intent of making a victim doubt their own memory, perception and sanity.

The term originates from the 1938 stage play Gas Light, in which a husband attempts to drive his wife insane by dimming the lights on and off while insisting she is imagining it. The term derives from the dimming effect that gas lamps have when lit.

The use of gaslighting tactics can be subtle or overt. Subtle tactics include withholding information, telling outright lies, using what is known as “the silent treatment” (refusing to engage with someone) or simply refusing to listen. More overt tactics include saying things like “I never said that”; “You don’t know what you’re talking about”; “You must be imagining things”; “Are you crazy?” or even “Have you lost your mind?

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Gaslighting is a form of emotional abuse that was first identified by psychoanalyst, Dr. Patrick M. Hamilton in 1938.

It involves a person or entity, gradually and deliberately causing another person to doubt their own sanity through the use of persistent denial, misdirection and contradiction. It takes its name from the 1938 stage play Gas Light where the husband tries to convince his wife she is going insane by dimming the gas lights in their home while denying that anything has changed.