Editing Abuse (section)

===Gaslighting===
{{Main|Gaslighting}}
Gaslighting is [[psychological manipulation|manipulation]] through persistent [[denial]], misdirection, contradiction, and [[lie|lying]] in an attempt to [[Destabilisation|destabilize]] and delegitimize a target. Its intent is to sow seeds of doubt in the targets, hoping to make them question their own memory, perception, and sanity.<ref name="Oxford Dictionary">{{cite web|title=Oxford Dictionary definition of 'gaslighting'|url=http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/gaslight|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120724051009/http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/gaslight|url-status=dead|archive-date=24 July 2012|website=Oxford Dictionaries|publisher=Oxford University Press|access-date=20 April 2016}}</ref><ref name="Dorpat">{{cite journal |last=Dorpat |first=T.L. |year=1994 |title=On the double whammy and gaslighting |journal=Psychoanalysis & Psychotherapy |volume=11 |issue=1 |pages=91–96 |url=http://psycnet.apa.org/psycinfo/1995-25157-001 |url-access=subscription }} {{closed access}}</ref> Instances may range from the denial by an abuser that previous abusive incidents ever occurred up to the staging of bizarre events by the abuser with the intention of disorienting the victim. The term owes its origin to ''[[Gaslight (play)|Gaslight]]'', a 1938 play and 1944 film, and has been used in clinical and research literature.<ref name="Dorpat1996">{{cite book |last=Dorpat |first=Theodore L. |title=Gaslighting, the Double Whammy, Interrogation, and Other Methods of Covert Control in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis |year=1996 |publisher=Jason Aronson |isbn=978-1-56821-828-1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3vLaAAAAMAAJ |access-date=6 January 2014}}</ref><ref name="JacobsonGottman1998">{{cite book |last1=Jacobson |first1=Neil S. |last2=Gottman |first2=John M. |title=When Men Batter Women: New Insights into Ending Abusive Relationships |date= 1998 |publisher=Simon and Schuster |isbn=978-0-684-81447-6 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PXvhE_AD084C&pg=PA129 |access-date=6 January 2014 |pages=129–132}}</ref>