BITE axis: Emotional
Gaslighting
Originally from Patrick Hamilton's 1938 play (and the 1944 film), now widely used in clinical and survivor literature for the sustained pattern of denying or contradicting a person's perception of reality to undermine their confidence in their own judgement. Common in intimate-partner abuse, spiritual abuse, and high-control-group disciplinary contexts. Distinct from ordinary disagreement by the systematic and identity-disrupting nature.