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The term "gaslighting" derives from an old film called Gaslight, a story of insidious psychological manipulation of a vulnerable woman by her psychopathic husband.
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'Gaslighting', what Washington and Wall Street does to the American public.
Crooks and Liars bluegal 2010
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Gaslighting is a method of manipulating a subject by making them doubt their own perception of reality.
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He is speaking of Gaslighting, being followed, under surveillance, concerns for the safety of his pet cat, and possibly having to move.
Gang Stalking World 2010
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'He made me think I was going mad - "gaslighting me" I call it, after the film Gaslight where Ingrid Bergman was married to a man who would flick the lights and then tell her she was mad.
Home | Mail Online 2009
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Gaslighting Redux regarding people who hate me or get pissed off at me due this blog and May writes
ElsaElsa.com 2008
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Gaslighting is the systematic attempt by one person to erode another's reality.
Just Enjoy Him 2008
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Dan Agin: Bush-McCain and the Gaslighting of America
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Gaslighting, the Double Whammy, Interrogation and Other Methods of Covert Control in Psychotherapy and Analysis by Theodore L. Dorpat
The Future is Now! 2008
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Fearing that North will be tempted into infidelity in a military base where there are "forty men for every woman," Ewell goes to Hawaii after her, and winds up tricking her into letting him stay in her quarters; as the only civilian husband on the base, the army wives ask him to be a fourth for their bridge game, and so on; then he tries to get her discharged by Gaslighting her into thinking she's crazy.
Archive 2008-08-01 Jaime J. Weinman 2008
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