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gaslit: narcissistic perversions of thesoul's moral fabric

Clinical Philosophy

‘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. and returned to his obnoxious conversation. (So We recognise this as a paradigm of narcissism.

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what's love got to do with it?

Clinical Philosophy

Therapy may look like something which it makes sense to pay for if it’s dressed up as something technical - as if the patient is merely consulting for the therapist’s skill or knowledge. The surrogacy analogy conveys something of value, but I think it neither fully deactivates Read’s concern nor does justice to the therapeutic situation.