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Are you sure you know what 'gaslighting' is?

The 1944 film <!-- raw HTML omitted -->Gaslight<!-- raw HTML omitted --> starring Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer dramatizes the concept of gaslighting.

Therapists say we're overusing the word. Here's what it actually means — and what the Ingrid Bergman film that helped birth the word can teach us about it.

(Image credit: Herbert Dorfman)

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