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When I was a graphics student, in the early 70s, a small group of us were set a brief to develop an advertising campaign for Ayds - a soft fudge-like sweet that was supposed to have appetite suppressing properties and promote weight loss. This involved presenting our visuals at the offices of J...

In view of the ubiquity of the terms "to gaslight" and "gaslighting", over the last five years or so, perhaps Turner-Stokes should consider quietly revising the name from "the GAS-Light model" to "the GAS-Lite model".

Off topic, but has anyone else noticed how no police procedural/crime drama/scandi-noir is complete without someone stumbling across a badly injured victim who's about to expire, and repeatedly urging them to "Stay with me..."? A few years ago, around Boxing Day, the BBC aired a new...

I haven't seen the film but I doubt it. It was called "Gas Light" (the 1938 play) and "Gaslight" (the 1944 film) because "The flickering gaslights which he claims she has imagined were caused by his turning on the attic lights, thus reducing the gas to the downstairs lights." I doubt very...

I can't speak for Jo Edwards, but what he may have meant is that although the term "gaslighting" originated from the title of the film "Gas Light", the film, itself, did not lead to people in the late 30s and early 40s familiar with the film's story talking about "gaslighting" as a concept. I...

If a link for the blog post had been sent to SW by email or if an extract or screenshot from the blog had been sent to SW by email then that would have had to have been sent by an unknown third party, since the late owner of the blog, from which a screenshot was used to illustrate the 2011 BMJ...

Interestingly, neither SW, himself, or any representative approached the website owner with a take-down notice.

Possibly it had been reposted on a forum, I can't remember now whether it was re-posted on PR or on a breakaway forum which no longer exists. But the original text and the formatting of the text as seen in the BMJ article is from a blog page on the website and the text would have been published...

A screenshot of the website, itself, was used for the article illustration - not an extract from an email sent personally to Wessely. So whoever was responsible for selecting the images to accompany the BMJ article had not dug very deeply into their source.

To clarify, I have not mentioned a forum in my post. The screenshot of the lines from the Bob Dylan song used to illustrate the 25 June 2011 BMJ article by Nigel Hawkes (for which the caption reads: "Simon Wessely and an example of one of the many offensive emails he has received") had been...

Thank you, Lucibee. I have added two new posts to the first of those two threads.

https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/evidence_of_threats_to_staff_mem? FOI Jane Clout 14 November 2012 Dear King’s College London, Professor Simon Wessely, your Vice Dean and Head of Department of Psychological Medicine and Director, King’s Centre for Military Health Research, has access to...

The lyrics of the last verse of a Bob Dylan song were not sent to Wessely in an email, as the text under an image within the BMJ article had implied. The Bob Dylan lyrics were posted on a website at the end of a blog post. The owner of that website died two years ago.

Thank you for clarifying the quote came from Twitter and not from me. Here's a proper piece of :emoji_cake:

It does. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaslighting The term is derived from the title of the play and films entitled Gas Light which are stories of a husband who uses trickery to convince his wife that she is insane in order to steal from her.[4][1] Gaslight/gaslighting was a largely an...

https://www.kcl.ac.uk/cicelysaunders/about/people/academic/turner-stokesl "[Prof Lynne Turner-Stokes] qualified in Medicine in 1979 and after accrediting in Rheumatology and Rehabilitation in 1992, she was appointed as consultant to set up a new Regional Hyperacute Rehabilitation Unit (RHRU) at...

I've been trying to find the earliest references to the development of the "GAS-Light" modification. The "GAS-Light" document on the KCL page was created in June 2012. Extract from: Turner-Stokes, L., Williams, H., Sephton, K., Rose, H., Harris, S., & Thu, A. (2012). Engaging the hearts and...

I didn't say the following, myself: someone on Twitter did. Can you adjust your post so that it's clear I was quoting someone else, please?

If there is another meaning, I am not aware of one. I sarcastically chose "cupcake" because of the word's ubiquity - although the obsession with "cupcakes" (formerly known as "fairy cakes" in the UK) does seem to have dwindled.

Yes, particularly on Mumsnet.