What is gaslighting?

Gaslighting — sometimes called “crazy-making” — is a type of psychological manipulation aimed at making you seem or feel “crazy,” as if you don’t understand or cannot accurately describe things that are happening to you. Gaslighting can happen in a romantic relationship, a friendship, with parents or other family members, at work, at school, in a doctor’s office, or elsewhere.

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The Sociology of Gaslighting

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George Floyd’s Autopsy and the Structural Gaslighting of America

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