Article: This 1892 Short Story About Gaslighting Should Be Required Reading In 2018It's a term that has re-surged in popularity over the last two years, one that has been applied to everyone from Donald Trump and Sean Hannity to Bill Clinton and Harvey Weinstein. Gaslighting: a particularly malicious form of deception in which a person's confidence and conviction is systematically eroded over time, until they are unable to tell the difference between truth and lies, reality and performance...And while gaslighting is nothing new — the term can be traced back to the 1938 play Gas Light, and the phenomenon itself even further — it is one that has become a serious threat to Americans in the wake of the 2016 election, one the current administration seems to be expertly implementing. That is why "The Yellow Wallpaper," author Charlotte Perkins Gilman's 1892 chilling short story, should be considered required reading. It may be a work of fiction that is over a century old, but it is as relevant — and as real today as ever before.