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Robin Stern
Robin Stern is an American psychoanalyst at Yale University, associate director for the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, an associate research scientist at the Yale Child Study Center, and is on the faculty of Teachers College, Columbia University. Her publications include the books '' The Gaslight Effect'' (2007) and ''Project Rebirth'' (2011). Her research includes looking at gratitude and its effects on healing, and a large study examining the effects of negative and positive emotions in students in the US. Education Stern graduated with a bachelor's degree in psychology from New York University. She received a master's degree in personality and social development from The New School for Social Research, and a PhD in applied psychology and research design from New York University. She gained a post-doctoral certificate in psychoanalytic group psychotherapy from the Postgraduate Center for Mental Health. Career Stern is a psychoanalyst at Yale University, associate dir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Gaslight Effect
''The Gaslight Effect: How to spot and survive the hidden manipulation others use to control your life'', is a book by psychologist Robin Stern which has been credited with popularizing the term "gaslighting".Fuchsman, K. (2019)Gaslighting ''The Journal of Psychohistory'', 47(1), 74–78. The book is based on Stern's experiences of treating patients within her practice. A foreword is provided by Naomi Wolf. It was first published by Morgan Road Books in 2007 with a second edition in 2018 by Harmony Books that included the role of gas lighting in politics. In the book, Stern outlines a "gaslight epidemic" which she attributes to the changing roles of women, particularly strong and smart women, and where men and women find it difficult "to disentangle themselves from employers, family members, spouses and friends who are clearly manipulative and cruel". She points out that it takes two to produce the gaslight effect, so "that the gaslightee holds the key to her own prison". She write ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |