Gaslight

Gaslight is the title of at least two films based on the Patrick Hamilton play Angel Street, in which a man marries a woman and tries to convince her she is crazy so that he can steal the jewels stored in her attic.

Related Topics:
Film - Patrick Hamilton - Angel Street

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• Gaslight, the 1944 film directed by George Cukor and starring Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer
• Gaslight, the 1940 version directed by Thorold Dickinson and starring Diana Wynyard, Anton Walbrook, and Frank Pettingell.

"Gaslighting Abbie" is a song (2000) by Steely Dan

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Gaslighting is also a type of behaviour portrayed in the film Gaslight (mentioned above). It is a form of psychological abuse characterised by persistent denials of fact which, over time, have the effect of causing the victim to become anxious, confused and progressively less able to trust their memory of events. A variation of gaslighting, used as a form of harassment, is to subtly alter aspects of a victim's environment so as to cause discomfort. This technique is supposed to have been used by the Manson Family on their 'creepy crawler' burglarys, in which nothing was stolen but furniture in the house was rearranged.

Related Topics:
Psychological abuse - Manson Family - Burglary

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:*See also cognitive dissonance

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