gaslighting_and_information_warfare_113410.html

"Gaslighting forces targets to question their reality. Gaslighting is a preferred tactic of narcissistic and aggressive personalities, bent on doing whatever it takes to gain and maintain advantage over others. Their point is to disorient and destabilize their targets. Attackers want to harness people’s self-doubts; ruin their capacity for seeing the world ironically; destroy their ability to make sound judgments, and ultimately drive them into submission. "