Crazymaking

When people project onto others, they can end up having the effect of gaslighting.

Then, when the person goes into therapy having been wrongly accused and “persecuted,” tbey might at last “show their “teeth” in their responsive defense to get out the “heat” in what is supposed to be a safe environment.

But, because what the therapist then sees mirrors the projections – which were false in the first place but had driven the innocent person into an internal frenzy – the therapist then reinforces this projection’s reality by admonishing!