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'Oh come on. I never said that.'
'You’re just being overly sensitive.'
'I don’t know why you’re making such a big deal out of this…'
Psychologists use the term 'gaslighting' to refer to a specific type of manipulation where the manipulator tries to get someone else [or a group of people] to question their own reality, memory or perceptions. And it’s always a serious problem because, according to psychologists, it always occurs in a relationship in which there is a power imbalance.
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WHY IS THIS FORM OF ABUSE
​CALLED GASLIGHTING?

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The term originates from the 1938 play Gas Light by Patrick Hamilton which led to two film adaptations [1940 and 1944] about a woman whose husband slowly manipulates her into believing that she is going insane.

​The more famous of these movies, the 1944 version, starred Ingrid Bergman [who won an Oscar for her performance in this film], Charles Boyer, and Joseph Cotten and was directed by George Cukor. 
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