In a relationship, they need to be in charge, and they need to be right about everything, routinely imposing their judgments on you. When she sees the gas lights in her room fading and is led to believe it’s not really happening, she starts to question her own sanity. The husband’s goal is to secretly increase his own fortune by stealing his wife’s inheritances. He hides and moves various articles in their home and, when she notices, tells her she either lost the items or moved them herself but can’t remember. The play tells the story of a cunning man who attempts to convince his devoted wife she is going insane. The term gaslight comes from the play Gas Light, by Patrick Hamilton.
“They lie or withhold information, pit people against each other, and always place blame elsewhere, all the while gaining control over those they are gaslighting.”Īccording to the American Psychological Association, the term “once referred to manipulation so extreme as to induce mental illness or to justify commitment of the gaslighted person to a psychiatric institution but is now used more generally.”
“Gaslighters are master manipulators,” says Tampa-based psychotherapist Stephanie Sarkis, PhD, LMHC, author of Gaslighting: Recognize Manipulative and Emotionally Abusive People-and Break Free. Gaslighting is a form of emotional and psychological abuse wherein a person uses verbal and behavioral tricks to convince another person they are losing their mind or-at the very least-cannot trust their own judgment.
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