Talk:Medical gaslighting

Wrong concept -- 88.97.5.228 10:03, September 17, 2022 (UTC)
This is not medical gaslighting. It’s psychologisation, as described by Goudsmit and Gadd in the Psychologist, October 1991. Gaslighting, and I know this well, has a malicious element. There is secondary gain eg money. Or sometimes, you just join in to help a narcissist. In the case of ME, one can not prove malicious intent. Prejudice, sexism, stupidity and denial, but not the malice associated with gaslighting.

I saw no reference to the concept of psychologisation and the journalists from the Guardian would not have known about it.

It’s up to others to decide if they want to be accurate or just follow newspapers. Not sure the latter helps patients. Psychologisation recognises more influences and there is a lot of supportive literature from medical and psychological journals. Your choice.