title: Some clinical consequences of introjection: gaslighting.
abstract: In the regression from the oedipal impulses some, perhaps many, people retreat to the introjective (oral) mode of defense. This and other defensive maneuvers culminate in a variety of behaviors which have been extensively and variously described in the literature. The authors describe, under the rubric of "gaslighting," an outcome of the introjective defense in which a victim and a victimizer join psychological modes in expressing and defending themselves against oral, incorporative impulses (greed), each in his or her own way.
mesh_terms: D003674:Defense Mechanisms; D004291:Dominance-Subordination; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009913:Oral Stage; D011385:Projection; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D011618:Psychotic Disorders / Q000209:etiology; D012539:Scapegoating; D012649:Self Concept; D012930:Social Dominance