Talk:Medical gaslighting: Difference between revisions

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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.
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.
: I think the definition could be improved. I might have an attempt at making it more precise. But the term "medical gaslighting" is mostly used to refer to a kind of psychologisation. Ultimately the job of me-pedia is to say what the sources say. Do you know where I can find that article? --[[User:Pwc|Pwc]] ([[User talk:Pwc|talk]]) 02:02, September 20, 2022 (UTC)

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Wrong concept -- 88.97.5.228 10:03, September 17, 2022 (UTC)[edit source | reply | new]

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.

I think the definition could be improved. I might have an attempt at making it more precise. But the term "medical gaslighting" is mostly used to refer to a kind of psychologisation. Ultimately the job of me-pedia is to say what the sources say. Do you know where I can find that article? --Pwc (talk) 02:02, September 20, 2022 (UTC)