The Psychology of Control. Ep 8. Gaslighting

Inside The Consulting Room - Understanding the Child Behind the Behaviour · May 21, 2026 · 19m · transcript

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Someone looks you in the eye and says, “That never happened,” and suddenly you are cross-examining your own memory instead of their behavior. That small internal shift is the doorway gaslighting uses, and it is why this form of psychological control can feel so disorienting and so hard to name.

I unpack what gaslighting actually is and what it is not. We trace the roots of the term, then get practical about the real-world tactics: denial, contradiction, minimization, false certainty, and emotional invalidation. We also talk about the hidden trick at the center of the pattern…