Gaslighting - References

“Gaslighting is often unnoticed and can do a lot of harm to the person who experiences it.”  Gabriela Sadurni Rodriguez

Conrad, M. (2023, 23 August). ‘What Is Gaslighting? Definition, Examples And Support’. Forbes Health. [Blog]. Online: https://www.forbes.com/health/mind/what-is-gaslighting/ 

Drescher, A. (2024, 20 January). ‘Gaslighting At Work: Signs & How To Respond’. Simply Psychology. [Online]: https://www.simplypsychology.org/gaslighting-at-work.html

Griffiths, S, (2023, 11 July). ‘Could you identify gaslighting in your workplace?’ The HR Director. [Blog]: https://www.thehrdirector.com/business-news/the-workplace/identify-gaslighting-workplace/. (NOTE: if a manager’s gaslighting behaviour isn’t enough, what do employees / talent do when HR “leaders” are employed to gaslight “targets” at a whole new level? Not enough is published about such organisational misconduct). 

Harsey, S. & Freyd, J.J. (2020). ‘Deny, Attack, and Reverse Victim and Offender (DARVO): What Is the Influence on Perceived Perpetrator and Victim Credibility?.’ Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment & Trauma. 29(8). 897-916. [Open Access] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/10926771.2020.1774695 

Martin, G. (2024). ‘The Silent Burn Of Gaslighting Igniting Our Workplaces’. Forbes Africa. [Online]: https://www.forbesafrica.com/opinion/op-ed/2024/08/12/expert-speak-the-silent-burn-of-gaslighting-igniting-our-workplaces/

Morris, A. (2024, 3 December). ‘Gaslighting at Work: How to Recognise & Address It’. Davidson Morris. [Online blog]: https://www.davidsonmorris.com/gaslighting-at-work/

(NOTE TO SAFEWORK NSW: “In cases where an employee has felt courageous enough to report incidents of gaslighting at work, it’s important not to undermine what they’re saying, so as not to further demean their thoughts, perceptions or beliefs. Where a complaint is not dealt with sensitively or taken seriously this, of itself, may amount to breach of the implied duty of trust and confidence…” 

How does the above quote reflect your duty of care, when a SafeWork NSW inspector says to me, “I’m not here to play he said she said”… while doing exactly that, taking the word of the gaslighting offender, the national manager of employment relations and SAFETY and dismissing mine? And SafeWork NSW then refusing to review my records of evidence for years thereafter? Damned if you do, damned if you don’t. It was about this very individual engaging in gaslighting, I had recorded on the certificate of capacity that I needed psychological guarding from. And then the SafeWork NSW inspector left me in this offender’s hands to finish the job.)

(NOTE TO MY EMPLOYER : “This means that if an individual is subjected to manipulative or controlling behaviour that serves to violate their dignity or creating a negative working environment for them because they possess any one of these characteristics, this will amount to unlawful discriminatory conduct”.

How does appointing such a person in the HR Directorate, responsible for the safety of people nationally, yet allowing this manipulative and controlling behaviour to happen, demonstrating the university Mission of a commitment to the dignity of the human person by Senior Executive Group leaders?)

Quinn, D. (2023, 14 February). ‘Gaslighting: 13+ Ways to Spot & Escape Emotional Manipulation.’ Sandstone Care. [Blog]: https://www.sandstonecare.com/blog/gaslighting/

Scott, H.S. (2018). ‘Extending the Duluth Model to workplace bullying: A Modification and adaptation of the Workplace Power-Control Wheel.’ Workplace Health & Safety. 66(9). 444-452. [Open access]: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2165079917750934 

(NOTE: Refer to The Workplace Power Control Wheel Pertaining to Workplace Bullying on p.447. From the abstract to this open access article:

“Initially, this wheel was designed to assist intimate partner violence (IPV) targets/victims identify patterns of abuse and intervene with male batterers/instigators. Research examining IPV and victims/survivors of WB demonstrate that targets often share common abusive experiences, including intimidation, coercion and threats, isolation, and economic and emotional abuse. This article demonstrates clear support for the Duluth Model and its application to WB target experiences. Applications of this model to identify WB and assist individuals to identify and describe experiences of abusive work environments are discussed.” ).

Spalding, K. (2023, 29 March). ‘Examples Of Gaslighting, And What You Can Do About It.’ IFL Science. [Blog]: https://www.iflscience.com/examples-of-gaslighting-and-what-you-can-do-about-it-68205#

Sweet, P.L. (2022, 1 October). ‘How Gaslighting Manipulates Reality.’ Scientific American. [Online] : https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-gaslighting-manipulates-reality/

(NOTE : “Our first task, then, is to reframe the way we think sociologically about abuse: gaslighting, like other forms of … violence, is not an incident but a process”. The “safety manager”, employed to use such tactics, would tell staff to refrain from communcating with me and leave it up to “process”. For all my colleagues, even at professorship level, who believed this: it was not a judicial “process” this corporate psychopath was referring to. It was a gaslighting “process.” “Domestic violence and institutional gaslighting tend to involve the most extreme forms of isolation. Isolation, as one of my interviewees put it, is the “breeding ground” for gaslighting.”