gaslit: narcissistic perversions of thesoul's moral fabric
Clinical Philosophy
JANUARY 16, 2021
‘Gas lighting’ was then put to psychopathological use in 1969 by psychiatrists Barton & Whitehead, who documented examples of wives inventing stories of their husband’s violent behaviour in order to get them psychiatrically detained. The second concept which is relevant here is Martin Heidegger’s notion of the ‘clearing’.
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