Gaslighting is a dangerous form of abuse precisely because it’s so hard to spot. It distorts the very thing we hold most dear: our perception of reality.A common tactic of emotional and physical abuse, gaslighting received its name from a 1938 British play and subsequent film, Gas Light.
A chilling mystery, the play features a man who, in a plot to get his wife committed to an “insane asylum” so he can steal her precious jewels, slowly convinces her that she’s losing touch with reality.
Every time the husband turns the light on in the couple’s attic to search for the jewels, the gas lights in the rest of the house dim.
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