![]() ![]() Sociopaths refuse to be held accountable for their behavior and often assign their own behavior to their victims. Thus, some who have been victimized by sociopaths may doubt their perceptions. Sociopaths consistently transgress social mores, break laws, and exploit others, but typically, are also charming and convincing liars who consistently deny wrongdoing. Sociopaths frequently use gaslighting tactics. Gaslighting is a form of mental and emotional violence in which the abuser says and does things with the intention of making victims doubt their feelings, insights, perceptions and even their own sanity! The gaslighter might also directly or indirectly imply that the individual is defective, crazy, or suffers from a mental illness. This is most often done through the denial of facts, events, or what one did or did not say. Gaslighting is a form of psychological abuse or brainwashing where one individual attempts to get another individual to believe they are "crazy". ![]() "Gaslighting is a form of mental abuse in which information is twisted or spun, selectively omitted to favor the abuser, or false information is presented with the intent of making victims doubt their own memory, perception, and sanity. In this essay I seek to shed light on this little understood but very common and very harmful phenomenon.įirst some information about conscious gaslighting before introducing the unconscious form: ![]() This is like recognising murder but overlooking manslaughter. It is just as harmful but usually overlooked. There is so little awareness and understanding of this that there is no term to describe it. There is however another type of psychological abuse that is identical in every way except that it is unintentional or unconscious. This is commonly discussed in the literature and associated with sociopaths, narcissists, etc. Gaslighting, as commonly understood, is a particular type of psychological abuse that is motivated by the conscious intention to harm. ![]()
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