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

[ADSGarson O'Toole]

The match appears to be in a 1962 issue. I cannot see the full text

Schizophrenia
Don D. Jackson
Scientific American 207, 65-74 (August 1962)
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0862-65

On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 12:53 PM, ADSGarson O'Toole
<adsgarsonotoole at gmail.com> wrote:
> Following Stephen's lead. Here is a match that apparently appeared in
> Scientific American
> and explicitly mentioned the verb form:
>
> Frontiers of Psychological Research: Readings from Scientific American
> https://books.google.com/books?id=CqcoAQAAIAAJ
> Stanley Coopersmith - 1964
>
> [Begin excerpt]
> ... of the parent-child relation. Such disturbed patterns of
> communication may obtain in other relations; the motion picture
> Gaslight, in which a husband willfully subjects his wife to such
> treatment, has added the verb "to gaslight" to the language.
> [End excerpt]
>
> Garson
>
> On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 12:38 PM, Stephen Goranson <goranson at duke.edu> wrote:
>> 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[....]
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>>
>> P. 183 in Culture and Personality by Anthony F. C. Wallace (NY: Random House, 1961, First Printing, confirmed on paper).
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>>
>> Stephen Goranson
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>> http://people.duke.edu/~goranson/
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>> ________________________________
>> From: American Dialect Society <...> on behalf of Ben Zimmer <...>
>> Sent: Friday, January 13, 2017 11:47 AM
>> To: ...
>> 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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