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🗓️ 29 April 2023
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0:00.0 | So, Burdo, what is gas lighting? What is the definition of gas lighting according to Amberto Castagnetta? |
0:08.4 | It is basically where you are using deceptive tactics to try to convince someone of something |
0:16.0 | that's factually not true, and yet by doing so, you do it so much and you keep in character, so to speak, |
0:23.9 | that the other person actually starts, like, second-guessing their own reality. |
0:28.8 | Yeah, that's a good definition. So, we get a lot of emails about this, a lot of questions, |
0:34.0 | and a lot of people are using the word on the internet these days. So, I asked people to submit |
0:41.2 | their stories of gas lighting. We received a lot of submissions, and I thought we would read |
0:48.3 | a sampling of those and find out how people are using the term. So, in this episode, I want to |
0:56.0 | define the term and also want to discuss related topics, related concepts, concepts that perhaps |
1:03.6 | might be more apt when people are describing situations where they might use the word gas lighting. |
1:09.8 | There might be a more accurate, precise word to describe what they're going through. |
1:15.6 | Maybe gas lighting is also changing over time. I don't know, but the main thing that I want to do |
1:21.6 | in today's episode is try to learn how people are using it and also validate people's experience, |
1:28.4 | because if you're ever using the term gas lighting as in that person gas lit me, in all likelihood, |
1:36.4 | that person harmed you, and it felt bad, and it was perhaps even immoral, but was done to you. |
1:44.4 | And so, you deserve validation, regardless of what word one uses to describe it. |
1:51.6 | Also, major trigger warning. We are going to be talking about gas lighting and anything related to it, |
1:58.0 | so make sure that you take care of yourself and maybe not listen if you might be triggered. |
2:03.6 | This is the Psychology in Seattle Podcast. I'm your host, Dr. Kirk Honda. I'm a licensed |
2:07.6 | therapist, and I'm also a professor. Who are you, bro? |
2:10.0 | My name is Umberto Kassagné, and I'm an unlicensed computer keyboard operator. |
2:14.8 | So, the origin, as you mentioned, comes from a movie, but it actually goes back to a play, |
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