Gaslighting: The Narcissist's Favorite Tool of Manipulation: How to Avoid the Gaslight Effect and Healing from Emotional and Narcissistic Abuse

This book has been helpful so far and enlightening in terms of my experiences with gaslighting. This book came into my life at the right time, I wish I had started reading it sooner. My only gripe is that this book was clearly not proofread scrupulously enough prior to publication. It is distracting to read a book published by an author who, indicated by the Dr., is at least either a Masters or Ph.D. in educational level have such bad diction sprinkled throughout the book. Page 48 literally has a sentence that just stops halfway through and does not have punctuation. This oversight makes me want to doubt the validity of the book, however the ideas have proven sound and strong so I guess this author has been lucky so far. It doesn't take much to have professional presentation, just a sharp eye. Whoever this author is, they should really have a certified copywriter review the book to correct every single typo, grammar error, and misspelling of words. It will seriously help to not distract from the very concrete message of the book.

I want to thank the author Dr. Covert for a well written and detailed explanation of this type of emotional abuse. The book is easy to read and follow and it explains behaviors we often interpret as " normal" as manipulative ways of gaslight. I would like to ask the author how a person may overcome this abuse when the abuser is you own parent ( mother). I recommend this book to whoever is going tru a manipulative relationship.

Although not every example she listed did not correlate to me, there were plenty that did and now I am more aware of it. I liked the suggestions to help deal with narcissists being I still have to interact with mine (elderly mother)

I prefer this book for all. These groups of people only seek to serve their own needs and won't mind using people as a means for their ends. they don't even think about how their behavior affects others, and this is why they find it so easy to use gaslighting techniques in their relationships. Thanks for the creator for this excellent content guidebook. Grateful!

Gaslighting was not only a informative but healing book..I had a sense of relief from a life time of stress, depression and anxiety.It validated what I had wrestled with and knew in my heart all my life.Particularly from a long time marriage that had ended.Thank you Dr. Theresa Covert for giving of yourself in such a profound way.

After reading this book, it’s clear that I’ve been experiencing so many levels of gaslighting in my relationship. This book is a good resource to help recognize gaslighting and adjust your responses to it.

I do have to agree that the grammar is pretty trash but the information behind it really goes a long way. I am the type of person to avoid conflicts at all costs and I've been around my fair share of narcissists, if not more. This book does a good job explaining what gaslighting is. It goes into detail how it is considered manipulation and how it can affect a person. It even has a chapter on ways to tell if you've been gaslighted. It also gives you things narcissists say when they are gaslighting. My favorite chapter was Chapter 9: Gaslighting Repellent. It gives some good examples on how you can shut that person down. All in all, I'm glad I was able to find and read this book!

The author knows her topic. However, the book is lightweight on conveying basics to the reader. Truly disappointed in the entire book. She dumbed it down is the best way to describe content. There are much better books available for Gaslighting & Narcissistic Personality Disorder. The book at best is a basic poorly constructed primer.

I gave up half way through this. I have been a victim of gaslighting and this was poorly written , repetitive in the obvious "pointers" and most definitely does not give you the tools to avoid being gaslit nor any constructive means of getting out once sucked in. I' d like to know how the Dr title was actually achieved because there is nothing in this writing to suggest it was written by anyone with credible medical experience.

This book is very poorly written, is repetitious, and references none of its arguments/claims. It is also quite short. I considered it a waste of money

I was looking forward to a new angle of gaslighting, but instead it became another book on narcissism. It was not proof read and there were a lot of literary errors. The word 'control' was repetitive with no reasoning about the control and why someone needs to behave this way. So the reader was not able to completely understand the dynamics of the behaviour between 2 people. I don't feel the author has enough knowledge of the depth behind gaslighting and most of the book led into another set of narcissistic criteria which could easily be found online.

Pretty repetitive, I struggled to finish the book, I can’t really see it helping anyone or maybe it just wasn’t for me, pretty sure some of the text was missing as a sentence just kind of stopped at one point. It’s pretty confusing as well kind of rambles on a bit

For such an important topic I found this hard to read in terms of structure and sentences. Not well written. I thought perhaps it had been badly translated from a different language by someone who doesn't speak English that well. Contents ok / interesting / insightful (once I'd unravelled some of the sentences). A bit repetitive. Not sure I'd recommend it.