<Li> Changing: The abuser feels the need to change something about the victim . Whether it be the way the victim dresses or acts, they want the victim to mold into their fantasy . If the victim does not comply, the abuser may convince the victim that he or she is in fact not good enough . </Li> <Li> Control: The abuser may want to fully control and have power over the victim . In doing so, the abuser will try to seclude them from other friends and family where only they can influence the victim's thoughts and actions . The abuser gets pleasure from knowing the victim is being fully controlled by them . </Li> <P> Gaslighting has been observed between patients and staff in inpatient psychiatric facilities . </P> <P> In a 1981 article, Some Clinical Consequences of Introjection: Gaslighting, Calef and Weinshel argue that gaslighting involves the projection and introjection of psychic conflicts from the perpetrator to the victim: "this imposition is based on a very special kind of' transfer'...of painful and potentially painful mental conflicts ." The authors explore a variety of reasons why the victims may have "a tendency to incorporate and assimilate what others externalize and project onto them", and conclude that gaslighting may be "a very complex highly structured configuration which encompasses contributions from many elements of the psychic apparatus ." Dorpat (1994) describes this as an example of projective identification . </P>

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