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To: Haiku Guy

What is “gaslighting”?


6 posted on 12/08/2014 11:06:49 AM PST by humblegunner (Why hello, Captain Trips.)
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To: humblegunner

Gaslighting is an effort to effect a person’s perception of reality by changing the information given to them in a purposeful way.

It refers to the 1944 movie Gaslight, with Charles Boyer and Igrid Bergman, where a man tries to drive his wife insane by lowering the level of the gaslight in her room while telling her that she was imagining the changing level of illumination.


16 posted on 12/08/2014 11:14:42 AM PST by Haiku Guy (Every driver with a "Ready For Hillary" bumper sticker had to scrape off a "Obama 12" bumper sticker)
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To: humblegunner

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaslighting


28 posted on 12/08/2014 11:34:58 AM PST by acad1228
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‘Gaslighting’ means someone making you think you’re crazy...when you’re not!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ToLfQU2xmg

And as an added bonus - ‘Unholy desires!’


30 posted on 12/08/2014 11:38:04 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
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