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Gaslighting: Know It and Identify It to Protect Yourself

Gaslighting: Know It and Identify It to Protect Yourself | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it
From www.psychologytoday.com - January 27, 2017 11:49 PM

Gaslighting is a tactic of behavior in which a person or entity, in order to gain more power, makes a victim question their reality. It works a lot better than you may think. Anyone is susceptible to gaslighting. It is a common technique of abusers, dictators, narcissists, and cult leaders.

 

It is done slowly, so the victim doesn't realize how much they've been brainwashed. In the movie Gaslight (1944), a man manipulates his wife to the point where she thinks she is losing her mind. 

People that gaslight use the following techniques...

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Psychology Today tells you everything you need to know about "gaslighting."

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A hellscape of lies and distorted reality awaits journalists covering President Trump | Washington Post

A hellscape of lies and distorted reality awaits journalists covering President Trump | Washington Post | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it
From www.washingtonpost.com - January 17, 2017 11:27 AM

What can this small chapter tell us about what’s to come?


That Trump will be what columnist Frida Ghitis of the Miami Herald calls “the gaslighter in chief” — that he will pull out all the stops to make people think that they should believe him, not their own eyes. (“Gaslighting” is a reference to the 1940s movie in which a manipulative husband psychologically abuses his wife by denying the reality that the gaslights in their home are growing dimmer and dimmer.)


“The techniques,” Ghitis wrote, “include saying and doing things and then denying it, blaming others for misunderstanding, disparaging their concerns as oversensitivity, claiming outrageous statements were jokes or misunderstandings, and other forms of twilighting the truth.”...

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Margaret William writes that the past tells us plenty about what to expect from the ‘gaslighter in chief.’ You can add twilighting to the list of terms you need to know in the fake news future.

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