Jennifer Fraser Ph.D.

About

Author of The Bullied Brain and The Gaslit Brain, Jennifer Fraser, Ph.D., is an internationally recognized expert in abuse cultures and ways to transform them into healthy, happy, high-performing ones. Her Ph.D. is from the University of Toronto where she was trained to take discourses out of their silos, put them into the arena, and see if the conversation changed. When you put abuse cultures, psychology, and brain science into the arena, it's remarkable how the conversation changes.

In short, all forms of bullying can do physical damage to brain structure and function. The neurological scars are visible on brain scans. It's time to exit the bullying paradigm of fear, humiliation, and favouritism and enter into a new "neuroparadigm."

An award-winning educator and author of four books on the way in which we can resist cultural and social scripting to innovate new structures, her fifth book will be published on November 4, 2025. The Gaslit Brain: Protect Your Brain from the Lies of Bullying, Gaslighting, and Institutional Complicity.

The Bullied Brain and The Gaslit Brain are the fundamental texts for Dr. Fraser's courses and consulting on "Clearsighted Leadership - Leading with the Brain in Mind." She is dedicated to transforming bullying into kindness, divisiveness into empathic listening, manipulation into truth-telling, and authoritarianism into democracy.

Books by Jennifer Fraser Ph.D.

Recent Posts

Gaslighters Manipulate How Our Brains Predict

Our brains predict the future to support our navigation of a dynamic reality. Research studies the way gaslighters manipulate and exploit this brain mechanism to control us.

Gaslighters Target Our Brains' Dependence on Others

Our brains evolved with a need to belong and a dependence on trusted others to co-create reality. This dependence puts us all at risk for gaslighting.

5 Strategies to Address Medical Gaslighting

Patients report that many doctors dismiss or misdiagnose their symptoms. Researchers have highlighted important strategies to sidestep this unintentional medical gaslighting.

Gaslighters Tell You Abuse Is a Necessary Evil for Greatness

Those who gaslight want us to believe that their harmful conduct is needed for us to achieve greatness. Research reveals that this is a manipulative falsehood.

Four Strategies to Defend Against Gaslighting at Work

Gaslighting thrives on making you feel unsafe at work. Research provides strategies to push back against those who want to manipulate you.

3 Key Drivers of Gaslighting

1. Separation insecurity.

Gaslighting Tries to Make You Bully Yourself

When we're bullied, and especially gaslit, we often look inward to find out what's wrong with us. Research shows we should be looking with attention and concern at the perpetrator.

Five Strategies to Expose Gaslighting at Work

Worried about being manipulated at work? Learn strategies to identify professional gaslighting and deception.

Forgive Your Bully, Restore Your Clarity

It feels impossible, and almost offensive, to forgive people who have harmed you. But when you commit to forgiveness, it brings a boost of clarity and empowerment.

Why Empathy Is the Foundation of Civilization

Empathy is being publicly derided as a deadly weakness. According to experts and extensive research, it's one of our greatest strengths.