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

[ADSGarson O'Toole]

Here are some more raw matches in GB in the 1960s. I think they are
interesting because they directly mention the verb form "to gaslight"
and, in essence, the evolution of language.

Film fame - Page 23
https://books.google.com/books?id=89JkAAAAMAAJ
Warren Goldsmith - 1966
... the 1944 Oscar, and "to gaslight" went into the English language
as a verb meaning sinister deception. For the next decade Ingrid was
consistently near the top of the Motion Picture Herald's poll of
money-making stars; her serene home life ...


Essays in self-destruction - Page 199
https://books.google.com/books?id=o4pqAAAAMAAJ
Edwin S. Shneidman - 1967 - ‎Snippet view - ‎More editions
Wallace19 has "shame" following the anxiety resulting from a poor
self-image; he uses the verb "to gaslight"— apparently taking it from
the film in which Charles Boyer "makes" Ingrid Bergman ill by planting
"her" mistakes for her to contemplate ...

On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 1:07 PM, ADSGarson O'Toole
<adsgarsonotoole at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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[....]
>>>
>>>
>>> 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/
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ________________________________
>>> 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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