What is gaslighting in relationships, and how can you tell if you're a victim of this manipulative form of emotional abuse? Knowing the signs of gaslighting—whether you suspect your partner is ...
Gaslighting happens when an abuser tries to control a victim by twisting their sense of reality. An example of gaslighting would be a partner doing something abusive and then denying it happened.
Most times, victims of gaslighting don’t even realise it's happening to them. That’s how insidious this form of psychological abuse can be and why it can be hard to spot. Gaslighting makes people feel ...
How do gaslighting survivors cope and recover in the aftermath of an abusive relationship? This was a main question of a study led by Willis Klein of McGill University. Gaslighting in romantic ...
If Instagram is your therapist, you may have been led to believe that if someone strongly disagrees with your point of view, then they are gaslighting you. As a psychotherapist, I have heard this term ...
We chatted with Relationships Australia CEO Elisabeth Shaw for the lowdown. Dating seems to have its own language these days – people can be ghosted, benched or bread-crumbed – but there’s one word ...
The term “gaslighting” has seen a major spike in popularity across social media and pop culture over the past several years, to the point where Merriam-Webster chose it as 2022’s “word of the year,” ...