Wednesday, August 23, 2017

Gaslighting: How to Drive Someone Crazy

Gaslighting: How to Drive Someone Crazy: A man obsessed with stealing valuable jewels murders one woman and attempts to drive the other one (his wife) crazy. His single-mindedness, driven by selfish motives, caused him to deceive and manipulate in order to obtain what he wanted regardless of the cost to others. Fortunately he is discovered just before he tries to commit his wife to an insane asylum. While this is the dramatic plot of the 1944 movie Gaslight (starring Ingrid Bergman) it could easily be applied to everyday. A person with narcissistic tendencies takes advantage of others to get what they want, resorting to deceptive tactics like twisting the truth. Any slight exposure of reality causes them to claim that other's perceptions are inaccurate and possibly crazy. They even go to the extreme of hiding things and then saying the other person lost the items. The name of the movie has become a psychological term called gaslighting. It describes the process of grooming someone into believing they are losing it. Here is

Monday, August 14, 2017

Gaslighting: How to Drive Someone Crazy

Gaslighting: How to Drive Someone Crazy: A man obsessed with stealing valuable jewels murders one woman and attempts to drive the other one (his wife) crazy. His single-mindedness, driven by selfish motives, caused him to deceive and manipulate in order to obtain what he wanted regardless of the cost to others. Fortunately he is discovered just before he tries to commit his wife to an insane asylum. While this is the dramatic plot of the 1944 movie Gaslight (starring Ingrid Bergman) it could easily be applied to everyday. A person with narcissistic tendencies takes advantage of others to get what they want, resorting to deceptive tactics like twisting the truth. Any slight exposure of reality causes them to claim that other's perceptions are inaccurate and possibly crazy. They even go to the extreme of hiding things and then saying the other person lost the items. The name of the movie has become a psychological term called gaslighting. It describes the process of grooming someone into believing they are losing it. Here is