Gaslighting Does Not Mean Simply Shifting the Blame

A certain James Bogle Esq. seems to have used the word "gaslighting" in the sense of "shifting the blame" to me here:

Correspondence of Hans Georg Lundahl: While the Debate May be Over, It is Yet to be Reviewed
https://correspondentia-ioannis-georgii.blogspot.com/2023/02/while-debate-may-be-over-it-is-yet-to.html

Michael Lofton used the word "gaslighting" in the sense of "shifting the blame" about Russians in relations to Ukraine here:

Did Ukraine Just Ban Orthodox Christianity?
Reason & Theology | 22.VIII.2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WO7v3ifOPiA

It's a sad day when the word "gaslighting" is being so abused after about a decade ago being unknown, I had to answer the question whether that was even a word.

Yes, it is a word, and it does not mean "shifting the blame" it means shifting a very particular type of blamedness as to a very particular type of situation.

When the abusive husband in the film Gas Light wants his wife to conclude she is insane, the blame of insanity is not one belonging properly to him, and the blame belonging to him, that of very devious manipulation, is not one he wants to shift to his wife. He only is shifting the quality of being the person to blame, but he is not shifting a particular blame between the persons, he is exchanging one type of blaim for a very different one.

He wants his wife to conclude she is insane, he wants her to consult, be locked up, and use the incapacities that go with her (supposed) insanity to take care of her belongings so he can steal from her.

Gaslighting doesn't mean telling someone to take the blame that's really one's own, it means giving someone clues for concluding he or she is mad, and if any extension should be made, it's giving someone else such clues when the person concerned refuses to be fooled. I would suggest, psychiatry thrives on Dunning Kruger and Prejudice in its own personnel, on Stockholm syndrome in the patients, but also on gaslighting in third parties. If people abusing the term succeed in making it just a shorthand for "shifting the blame" it will involve my charge against psychiatry becoming incomprehensible./HGL