Explainer: what does 'gaslighting' mean?
- Written by Jessamy Gleeson, Research Officer, School of Global, Urban & Social Studies, RMIT University
Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer in Gaslight (1944), the film that inspired the now widely used term. Metro Goldwyn-Mayer
Shortlisted for the Oxford English Dictionary’s 2018 word of the year, “gaslighting” has well and truly found its way into contemporary thought and vernacular.
The term has recently been employed to explain the...