{"id":27470,"date":"2019-05-13T10:17:43","date_gmt":"2019-05-13T14:17:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=27470"},"modified":"2019-05-13T10:17:43","modified_gmt":"2019-05-13T14:17:43","slug":"gaslighting-the-mind-game-everyone-should-know-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2019\/05\/13\/gaslighting-the-mind-game-everyone-should-know-about\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaslighting: The Mind Game Everyone should Know About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Elephant Journal <\/em>has the article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elephantjournal.com\/2015\/08\/gaslighting-the-mind-game-everyone-should-know-about\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Gaslighting: The Mind Game Everyone should Know About<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nOverall, the main reason for gaslighting is to create a dynamic where the abuser has complete control over their victim so that they are so weak that they are very easy to manipulate.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I took a quick survey around my home office.  I found that half of us did not know what gaslighting was.<\/p>\n<p>For those who have not seen the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0036855\/plotsummary\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">1944 movie Gaslight<\/a>, here is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?source=hp&#038;ei=f3vZXOulBImm_Qbap5foDg&#038;q=gaslight+movie+synopsis&#038;oq=gas+light+movie&#038;gs_l=psy-ab.1.3.0i10l10.3004.15544..21839...1.0..0.318.1701.12j3j0j1....3..0....1..gws-wiz.....6..35i39j0i131j0.bNZVCq9Nq-c\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">synopsis from Google<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nAfter the death of her famous opera-singing aunt, Paula (Ingrid Bergman) is sent to study in Italy to become a great opera singer as well. While there, she falls in love with the charming Gregory Anton (Charles Boyer). The two return to London, and Paula begins to notice strange goings-on: missing pictures, strange footsteps in the night and gaslights that dim without being touched. As she fights to retain her sanity, her new husband&#8217;s intentions come into question.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elephant Journal has the article Gaslighting: The Mind Game Everyone should Know About. Overall, the main reason for gaslighting is to create a dynamic where the abuser has complete control over their victim so that they are so weak that they are very easy to manipulate. I took a quick survey around my home office. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-stevegsposts","czr-hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27470"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27471,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27470\/revisions\/27471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}