From: olivercranglejr@gmail.com   
      
   Book Review:   
   Gaslighting -   
   How to Drive Your Enemies Crazy   
   by Victor Santoro,   
   reviewer Eleanor White   
   This page updated February 6, 2004   
      
   Copyright 1994   
   Published by   
   Loompanics Unlimited   
   PO Box 1197   
   Port Townsend, WA 98368 USA   
   ISBN 1-55950-113-8   
   Library of Congress number 94-75742   
   113 pages, paperback, indexed   
   This is an "Eleanor White Book Review". Such reviews are not like   
   what   
   you see in the print media. My emphasis is to provide enough   
   information that a multi-stalking victim or supporter can make an   
   intelligent decision as to whether to buy the book. This means most   
   of   
   the reviews are excerpted text, with comments inserted. This type of   
   review is biased in favor of information relevant to the fight to   
   expose, educate the public about, and stop, multiple stalking.   
      
   Note: In the excerpted text from the book, emphasis by way of ALL   
   UPPER CASE LETTERS is mine. The reason for such emphasis is to point   
   up information particularly relevant.   
      
   The MAIN purpose of this book review is to describe for the visiting   
   public just how subtle and devious the "science" of harassment had   
   become by the end of the 20th century. Multiple stalker victims will   
   immediately recognize the modus operandi in this book.   
      
   The book Gaslighting is intended to show effective ways of driving   
   someone who has done the reader a REALLY bad turn, or made life Hell   
   for the reader, REALLY crazy. The author takes the position that a   
   few   
   people really do deserve extraordinary harassment. The problem with   
   multiple stalking victims, however, is that they have done NOTHING to   
   deserve the types of treatment described in this book.   
      
   REASON TO PURCHASE THIS BOOK: I, Eleanor White, have found that this   
   little book in hard copy form can do a terrific job of making it   
   plain   
   to those not informed about multiple stalking that some people really   
   do at the very least THINK, and SERIOUSLY, about such crimes.   
   Especially good for doubting family members and co-workers, who often   
   would really rather none of what the multi stalking victim says be   
   true, and would love to rid themselves of worry by writing us off as   
   mental cases.   
      
      
   Table of Contents   
      
   Introduction .................................................. 1   
      
   Gaslighting Philosophy ........................................ 5   
      
   Causing Disorientation ........................................ 19   
      
   Building Paranoia ............................................. 39   
      
   Destroying Your Target's Reputation ........................... 45   
      
   Provoking Confrontations ...................................... 59   
      
   Real Trouble .................................................. 101   
      
   A Final Word .................................................. 113   
      
   Back to Top of Table of Contents   
   Introduction   
      
   [p 1]   
      
   "Gaslighting" is a systematic array of techniques that destroys your   
   target's mental equilibrium, self-confidence, and self-esteem, and is   
   designed to drive your target nuts. Gaslighting is NOT conventional   
   harassment or physical destruction, but highly refined and subtle   
   psychological warfare.   
      
   [Eleanor White: Sound familiar?]   
      
   Relatively crude harassing tactics, such as sending him magazine   
   subscriptions and having his utilities turned off make it   
   unequivocally clear to the target that HE'S UNDER ATTACK BY SOMEONE   
   ELSE.   
      
   [Eleanor White: And I might add, this book proposes tactics designed   
   so that the target canNOT convince others that he IS under attack.   
   The   
   big difference is FREQUENCY of occurrence. While the normal breaks of   
   life happen occasionally, "Gaslighting" and multi stalking victims   
   may   
   have these subtle attacks happen DAILY.]   
      
   Gaslighting is far more subtle, because most of the techniques NEVER   
   CLEARLY POINT to a malevolent or vengeful other party. The hapless   
   target never suspects that things are being done to him ... [EW: at   
   first, anyway] ...he comes to believe he's DOING THEM TO HIMSELF!   
      
   Other tactics are designed to ALIENATE HIM FROM HIS FAMILY MEMBERS,   
   NEIGHBORS, ASSOCIATES, FELLOW EMPLOYEES, AND EVEN HIS EMPLOYER!   
      
   [p 2]   
      
   The term "Gaslighting" comes from the 1944 Hollywood movie   
   Gaslight... ... In the movie Charles Boyer tries to convince his wife   
   that she's going insane by contriving incidents designed to make it   
   appear as if she's forgetful, disoriented, an confused. ... Boyer ...   
   was able to use the force of his personality to convince Bergman that   
   she had inherited bad genes from her mother, who had died insane.   
      
   Back to Top of Table of Contents   
      
   Chapter 1: Gaslighting Philosophy   
      
   [p 8]   
      
   A fundamental aspect of gaslighting doctrine is that it's a   
   progressive attack on your target's personality first, followed by   
   his   
   social and occupational relationships. Unlike harassment, where you   
   work from the outside in, gaslighting begins at the center and works   
   out. The sequence of attacks is important, because if you were to   
   mount a direct attack at first, you'd run into a strong and fully   
   functioning personality, able to resist the assaults.   
      
   [Eleanor White: Thankfully, in many cases of attacks as described in   
   this book, these sly moves actually STIFFEN and STRENGTHEN the   
   target's resolve, not destroy it.]   
      
   [p 9]   
      
   There are several steps in preparing a gaslighting campaign against a   
   target. The first is to find out all you can about your target. The   
   first step is to find out all you can about your target, to uncover   
   entry points into his life. The following list provides a minimal   
   outline of what you need to know:   
      
   - Full name   
   - Home address   
   - Marital status   
   - Spouse's name   
   - Number of children if any   
   - Children's sex and age   
   - Other relatives   
   - Occupation   
   - Work address   
   - Work telephone   
   - Name of supervisor   
   - Names of fellow employees   
   - Spouse's workplace   
   - Hobbies and interests   
   - Motor vehicles owned   
   - License plate numbers   
   - Credit card accounts   
   - Bank account numbers   
      
   [Eleanor White: My multiple stalkers have demonstrated knowledge of   
   all the applicable points listed above, and it is a real puzzle how   
   this has been done.]   
      
   [p 12]   
      
   Your target should not discover that he's under attack until your   
   plan   
   is well underway and it's too late for him to counter it.   
      
   [p 13]   
      
   In many cases, you'll improve your chances of success if you have a   
   confederate or two to support you. This is especially true if you're   
   conducting a whispering campaign against your target. A target may   
   accuse one person of "having it in for him," but if he begins voicing   
   suspicions of SEVERAL people conspiring against him, he'll present an   
   image of paranoia.   
      
   [p 14]   
      
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