Institutional Gaslighting: When a group of respected people within an institution are posed as investigating on the victim’s behalf, but in actuality act to belittle or deny the reality of
the harm committed in order to protect the institution’s reputation, the institution can cause the victim to question their own perceptions of reality, feelings, instincts, and even sanity. When an authority figure incites self-doubt in the victim, they are employing a tactic of
emotional abuse referred to as “gaslighting, a term coined in reference to domestic abuse.” Perpetrators, whether they are individuals or institutions, use “gaslighting” to get what they want, typically “without ever taking responsibility for their actions or even their precipitating desires.” When an institution gaslights a victim in order to protect its own reputation, the institutional betrayal silences, invalidates, and harms recent survivors in their most vulnerable states.
Example:
LaJuana informs psychiatrist Dr. Van
Schenck, a gangstalker tried to murder her and she captured the attack on dash-cam.
Dr. Van Schenck reviews the video and tells patient she is having audio and visual hallucinations. Despite the patients clear and convincing video evidence, the doctor refuses to give patient her regular medication, but says he will write her a perscription to treat schizophrenia (a medication in-which he recieves financial kick backs) Dr. Van Schenck pretends he's not aware paitent is a Targeted Individual of non-consensual remote Smart Dust/ Nanotechnology experiments being conducted by Academia and Big Pharma. The doctor documents his false diagnosis into her medical file. LaJuana has just experienced
Institutional Gaslighting.