I came across an article about the gaslighting of the US by our present administration.
Here is the article that attracted my attention:
http://www.cnn.com/...ting-america-ghitis/
the definition from the good old dictionary
verb (gaslights, gaslighting, gaslighted) [ withobj. ]mmanipulate (someone) by psychological means intoquestioning their own sanity: in the first episode, Karen Valentine is being gaslighted by her husband.[from the storyline of the movie Gaslight (1944), in which a man psychologically manipulates his wife into believing that she is going insane.]
and a little more from Wikepedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaslighting
How we adapt and can be manipulated by misdirection is explained by the interaction of our type I intuitive processes and our type II cognitive processes.
This book presents these processes:
Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman published in 2011
https://www.amazon.com/...ding=UTF8&btkr=1
Any thoughts about whether gaslighting applies to our present circumstances?
I was fascinated to see it actually has a name
Here is the article that attracted my attention:
http://www.cnn.com/...ting-america-ghitis/
the definition from the good old dictionary
verb (gaslights, gaslighting, gaslighted) [ withobj. ]mmanipulate (someone) by psychological means intoquestioning their own sanity: in the first episode, Karen Valentine is being gaslighted by her husband.[from the storyline of the movie Gaslight (1944), in which a man psychologically manipulates his wife into believing that she is going insane.]
and a little more from Wikepedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaslighting
How we adapt and can be manipulated by misdirection is explained by the interaction of our type I intuitive processes and our type II cognitive processes.
This book presents these processes:
Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman published in 2011
https://www.amazon.com/...ding=UTF8&btkr=1
Any thoughts about whether gaslighting applies to our present circumstances?
I was fascinated to see it actually has a name