I've never been gaslighted by a therapist, but I've experienced it in real life several times and it isn't pleasant. All those situations were in work situations.

Over the years, I've checked out a series of different Ts in an attempt to find one I wanted to work with, and in the search, I decided not to work with a few after determining that they were dealing "badly" with their own issues and were in no position to help anyone else. I'm pretty sure that if I had continued to meet with those individuals, I would have been subjected to their "gaslighting" behaviors relatively quickly.

The sad thing is that the therapeutic relationship is ripe for this kind of abuse. Give a person an in depth education in psychological theories,l terms and reasoning, add the tools to "judge" a person's behavior on the basis of intensely personal information about their history (family of origin) and the client's dreams, wishes, desires and fantasies and bingo, you've got the ability to gaslight him/her. That's why it is so sad that so many people with their own psychological issues are turned free on the unsuspecting naïve public. If the profession policed itself better, and I'm not just talking about licensing, but intense ongoing supervision and intense ongoing training for the lifetime of one's professional career, things might be slightly less dangerous. But I'm realistic enough to know that ain't gonna happen any time soon.