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Gaslighting , also called coercive control , historically referred to extreme psychological manipulation to commit an individual to a psychiatric institution or cause mental illness with the intent to brainwash. In contemporary language, gaslighting is a colloquialism describing the subjective experience of having one's reality repeatedly questioned by another. Merriam Webster cites deception of one's memory, perception of reality, or mental stability. This term, derived from the 1944 American film Gaslight , entered colloquial English usage in the mid-2010s. In a 2022 Washington Post report, it was described as a "trendy buzzword" frequently used to describe ordinary disagreements, rather than those situations that align with the word's historical definition.
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