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Institutional Trauma Betrayal - "Deny, Attack, and Reverse the Victim and Offender" - DARVO

 

What is Institutional DARVO?

DARVO stands for "Deny, Attack, and Reverse the Victim and Offender."

 The perpetrator/victimizer first Denies their malevolent/criminal  behavior, then Attacks the individual doing the confronting or Whistle Blowering, then Reverse the roles of Victim and Offender such that the perpetrator assumes the victim role and turns the true victim -- or the whistleblower -- into an alleged offender/ wrong-doer through smearing, recruiting minions and denigrating and re-victimizing the victim

 This occurs,  when an actually guilty perpetrator assumes the role of the "falsely accused" and attacks the accuser's credibility and reputation and blames the accuser of being the perpetrator of a false accusation.

Institutional DARVO occurs when the DARVO is committed by the institution (or with institutional collusion and complicity ) as when the police charge rape victims with lying when she actually has been raped by one of their own police officers or when academic or health care institutions accuse the abuse victims of smearing the reputation of the sexual predators working within the institution,  i.e. professors, managers, any of the elites who are protected by the institution for a variety of reasons such as protecting other elites' reputations, pay-offs and bribes.

 Institutional DARVO is a particularly an injurious and pernicious form of institutional betrayal trauma

 

Institutional Betrayal and Institutional Courage - Jennifer J. Freyd, PhD Professor of Psychology, University of Oregon Faculty Affiliate of the VMware Women's Leadership Innovation Lab at Stanford University

Founder and President, Center for Institutional Courage, Inc.

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