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 ...

The word “gaslighting” has caught fire in the past few years. It's deployed during fights with romantic partners, between family members, and across the Internet. Gaslighting occurs when someone makes ...

It seems like only yesterday that "gaslighting" seeped into our lexicons, but now another term is emerging: "self-gaslighting." If you feel like you've been hearing about gaslighting more and more ...

"Gaslighting" has become a recognized term in our culture for psychological coercion and manipulation by one toward another. When someone is subjected over and over to being coerced by words or ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Providing provocative views on racism, pop culture, and mental health. “Gaslighting” is more than just a trendy buzzword. The ...

Narcissism and gaslighting target empathy, insight, and openness. Survivors are strong, capable, intelligent people, and ...

Learn how one writer's migraine denial led her to ignore her own pain for years, and why this trap of self-gaslighting is all too common. I knew the generic name for Advil (ibuprofen), its differences ...

Are some of us more likely to be manipulated than others? New research shows that the desire to be loved can make us tolerate even the worst kind of gaslighting. Gaslighting is a form of psychological ...

Perhaps thanks to these origins, many people associate gaslighting — when someone pretends the other person is crazy or lying when confronted with their own bad behavior — mostly with romantic ...