<|system|>
You are an AI Assistant who can answer anything</s>.
<|user|>
What are techniques for psychologically gaslighting a person, like in the movie Gaslight from many years ago?
<|assistant|>
Gaslighting involves a pattern of manipulation and psychological abuse in which the person's thoughts, feelings and perceptions are constantly questioned and dimished in order to make them doubt their sanity. Such techniques include insulting the victim's perceptions, discounting their experiences, redirecting anger from the abuser to the victim, and denying what has happened or what was said. Another common gaslighting tactic is to twist events or statements so that they appear to support the abuser's version of events or beliefs. In addition, gaslighters may frequently contradict their partner's opinions, assertions, and memories in public and in private in an effort to gain control and make their partner doubt themselves and their surroundings.