[Ads-l] 1961 psychology use Re: [ADS-L] [Non-DoD Source] Re: "Gaslight" as a verb only five decades old

[Stephen Goranson]

It is also popularly believed to be possible to "gaslight" a perfectly healthy person into psychosis by interpreting his own behavior to him as symptomatic of serious mental illness.While "gaslighting" itself may be a mythical crime, there is no question that any social attitude which interprets a given behavior or experience as symptomatic of a generalized incompetence is a powerful creator of shame[....]


P. 183 in Culture and Personality by Anthony F. C. Wallace (NY: Random House, 1961, First Printing, confirmed on paper).


Stephen Goranson

http://people.duke.edu/~goranson/



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Subject: Re: [ADS-L] [Non-DoD Source] Re: "Gaslight" as a verb only five decades old

Ben Yagoda, who initiated this thread, summarized our discussions of the
history of the verb "gaslight" in his latest column for the Chronicle's
Lingua Franca blog.

https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.chronicle.com_blogs_linguafranca_2017_01_12_how-2Dold-2Dis-2Dgaslight_&d=CwIFaQ&c=imBPVzF25OnBgGmVOlcsiEgHoG1i6YHLR0Sj_gZ4adc&r=uUVa-8oDL2EzfbuMuowoUadHHcJ7pjul6iFkS5Pd--8&m=jmROk26LsgeYlEw6gdsGClQjP7eLdEtf5KHax00HqB0&s=RJVBrN6nDx_WpMhgl_8RVC6sy7WPcJtiWUbu_-svRbk&e=

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