DARVO
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DARVO is an acronym that stands for deny, attack, reverse victim and offender.
Here's a hypothetical scenario, using Christian-backed anti-gay rhetoric as an example:
- Deny: Christians don't hate gays. Christians love everyone. We just want everyone to have the love of the Lord
- Attack: You only think otherwise because of the fake news pushed by the corrupt, atheist media that tries to slander Christians.
- Reverse victim: We need to stand up to the gay lobby pushing their agenda down our throats.
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Origins[edit]
The term was coined by Jennifer Freyd in her 1997 "Violations of power, adaptive blindness, and betrayal trauma theory"[1] to explain how perpetrators of unequivocally bad things (e.g., sexual assault) paint themselves as victims and their victims as the ones in power.
A forthcoming (2016) study aims to test whether DARVO is an empirically strong method of classification.[2]
See also[edit]
External links[edit]
- What is DARVO?, Jennifer J. Freyd at the University of Oregon
- DARVO at Wiktionary
- DARVO at ChangingMinds.org
- DARVO on Twitter -- thousands of exampels
- Tagged DARVO at PyschopathResistance
References[edit]
- ↑ Freyd, J.J. (1997) Violations of power, adaptive blindness, and betrayal trauma theory. Feminism & Psychology, 7, 22-32.
- ↑ What is DARVO? by Jennifer J. Freyd
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