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A review of some terms useful in political analysis & polemics</div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none" class="">gaslight</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class="">What does <i class="">gaslight</i> mean?</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none" class="">We define <i class="">gaslighting</i> as “to attempt to make (someone) believe that he or she is going insane (as by subjecting that person to a series of experiences that have no rational explanation).”</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class="">Where does <i class="">gaslight</i> come from?</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none" class="">The modern sense of <i class="">gaslighting</i> comes from
<i class="">Gas Light</i>, a play (1938) by British writer Patrick Hamilton, subsequently made into British and American films entitled
<i class="">Gaslight</i> (1940 and 1944), in which a man attempts to trick his wife into believing that she is going insane. Used as a verb and verbal noun,
<i class="">gaslighting</i> has been in this figurative use since <a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/words-from-london/gaslight" class="">
<span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(30, 68, 84);" class="">at least 1956</span></a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none" class="">> Also a recent vogue-word (— H.W. Fowler) or “hotword.” ~ RSz. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">psychotomimetic</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><b class="">Definition</b> - of, relating to, involving, or inducing psychotic alteration of behavior and personality</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">This word—from
<i class="">psychotic</i> and <i class="">mimetic</i> (meaning "imitative")—first appeared in the 1950s, as mind-altering drugs began catching on with the public. The word's unpleasant association with psychosis inspired Dr. Humphry Osmond to coin the synonymous
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the emphasis to examining how the agent might help enlarge the vision or explore the mind.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">The manner by which LSD-25 produces its mental changes is obscure. The letters LSD stand for lysergic acid diethylamide. The 25 identifies it as the 25th compound in the series. The drug itself
is loosely classified as “hallucinogenic” or “psychotomimetic.”</span></div>
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Joe Hyams, _The New York Herald Tribune</i>, 8 Nov. 1959</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">trichotillomania</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><b class="">Definition</b> - an abnormal desire to pull out one's hair</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; color: #9c0012; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/trichotillomania" class=""><i class="">Trichotillomania</i></a></span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">
comes from combining roots from New Latin (<i class="">trich</i>, meaning “hair,” and
<i class="">mania</i>) and Greek (<i class="">tillein</i>, meaning “to pull, pluck”). The word appears to have come about at the suggestion of a French doctor at the end of the 19th century.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">Trichotillomania.—This name is proposed by M. Hallopeau for a condition described by him at the seance of the French Society of Dermatology and Syphilography … It is a morbid condition, consisting
of exacerbations of pruriginous sensations in the hairy parts of the body, accompanied by a vesania, that leads the subjects to try to get relief by pulling out the hairs, hence the name given above.</span></div>
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American Journal of Insanity</i> (Baltimore, MD), Jul. 1894</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">By 1896 the word was already found defined in medical dictionaries, such as George M. Gould’s
<i class="">The Student’s Medical Dictionary</i> (“an uncontrollable impulse to pull out one’s hair”).</span></div>
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