Narcissistic Mother Gaslights the Scapegoat Child/ren

Manipulative Gaslighting Abuse: More Than Just Narcissistic Lying

Introduction

Gaslighting invalidation and rewriting history is much more than just lying. The term originated from the movie, Gaslight, which is discussed followed by definitions of gaslighting by the experts. It is the author's beliefs that everyone should understand gaslighting, so providing a firm foundation of gaslighting is the goal as the discussion continues into gaslighting invalidation, how gaslighters love to rewrite history, physical gaslighting, and some examples of gaslighting. Next, the three phases of gaslighting are briefly discussed, some of the ways gaslighting techniques are used.

The goal is awareness in order to be equipped to begin recognizing gaslighting if it is happening to you or a loved one. While virtually anyone can employ gaslighting techniques against another person, there are some specific situations in which gaslighting is often used. The average person is not intentionally trying to drive their spouse into the psychiatric hospital with gaslighting techniques, for example.

However, gaslighting may be found in some abusive relationships, workplace or school mobbings, multiple perpetrator stalkings, the reporting of cause stalking to police, and has even been observed between patients and staff in inpatient psychiatric facilities.

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