Gaslighting. It's hard to go even one nightly scroll without someone on TikTok raging about the unfairness of it all. Indeed, gaslighting has become a buzzy term on social media and in popular culture ...

If Instagram is your therapist, you may have been led to believe that if someone strongly disagrees with your point of view, then they are gaslighting you. As a psychotherapist, I have heard this term ...

Gaslighting happens when an abuser tries to control a victim by twisting their sense of reality. An example of gaslighting would be a partner doing something abusive and then denying it happened.

What is gaslighting in relationships, and how can you tell if you're a victim of this manipulative form of emotional abuse? Knowing the signs of gaslighting—whether you suspect your partner is ...

Have you ever felt like someone was trying to make you doubt your own sanity? If so, then you may have been a victim of gaslighting. Gaslighting is a form of psychological manipulation that is used to ...

Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...

Dictionary publisher Merriam-Webster announced its word of the year this week, inspired by the current age of misinformation and manipulation. I applaud Merriam-Webster’s choice for 2022’s word of the ...

Barry Johnson’s chronic misuse of the term “gaslighting” prompts me to quote Inigo Montoya: “you keep using that word… I don’t think it means what you think it means.” Gaslighting is manipulating ...

Jenna, age 39, had tears streaming down her face when describing how invalidated she felt after speaking to her mother. She said, "My mother makes these upsetting sarcastic comments and then tells me ...