Gaslighting: How to recognize manipulative and emotionally abusive people while recover from a toxic relationship, avoid borderline

By Julie A. Gift

Gaslighting: the cruelest form of psychological violenceWhat is this thing called gaslighting? How did it come to be the favorite tool of manipulation for a narcissist? These questions and many more other questions might have come to your mind as you turned to this page, and to understand what gaslighting is, and how it became a favorite tool in a narcissist's tool bag, it is necessary to consider how gaslighting came to be a term. The term "gaslighting" as a form of emotional abuse that came into popular consciousness in a 1938 thriller play written by the British playwright Patrick Hamilton, "Gas Light." The play premiered in London and was adapted later into a movie in 1944. In the movie, the abusive husband, Gregory Anton (depicted by Charles Boyer) manipulates Paula (depicted by Ingrid Bergman) into making her think that she has gone mad. He makes her believe that she is a kleptomaniac without realizing she is, and that she is hearing noises that aren't being heard by any other person. Paula sees the gas lights around the house dimming at times and brightening at other times for no reason. Unbeknownst to her, it was Gregory who was switching the lights on and off to create the impression that she did not see the lights as they were. He was manipulating her belief in her reality. At a point in the movie, Paula begins to question her reality and thinks she is going crazy through her perception of the gas lights. Gregory's action with the gas lights was one of how he manipulated her perception of reality. Real-life gaslighting situations have something in common with what was portrayed in the movie. In "Gaslighting" situations, the goal is to isolate and brainwash the victim to control the victim's version of reality. Gaslighting happens in several ways in real-life situations; gaslighting happens in personal relationships like marriage and friendships; an example is a father always disapproving of his son's decisions to the extent that the son questions decisions he suspects his father would not agree with. The father may want to control every decision made by his son consciously or unconsciously, but he might be gaslighting the son into doubting his own choices. Another example of gaslighting in personal relationships is that of a spouse who continually humiliates their partner and demands attention from them while putting them down if they refuse to consider them. In this book we will discuss the following topics: -How to find out if your partner is a narcissist-The sneaky mechanism of Gaslighting page 49-Effects of Gaslighting-How to reduce conflicts in relationships-Choosing a new partner page 99-Creating healthy relationshipsWhat are you waiting for? Download this book now and get rid of the "Gas Lights"

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B085RNKV5M
• ISBN13: 9798623641403
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 124 Pages
• Weight: 0.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"