Shared Stories of Parental Gaslighting That Inspired a Novel

Fran Hawthorne has been writing novels since she was four years old, although she was sidetracked for several decades by journalism. During that award-winning career, she wrote eight nonfiction books, mainly about consumer activism, the drug industry, and the financial world, and was also an editor or regular contributor for The New York Times, BusinessContinue reading “Shared Stories of Parental Gaslighting That Inspired a Novel”

Gaslight, Classic Cinema’s Final Mental and Emotional Health Episode

If ever we needed a visual example of the methods used to manipulate how people think, this movie, Gaslight (1944) is the perfect example. That’s why Celeste and I chose it to end our series about mental and emotional health. In the movie, a young woman, played by Ingrid Bergman, finds her beloved and famousContinue reading “Gaslight, Classic Cinema’s Final Mental and Emotional Health Episode”