It creates great confusion and often works.
The acronym DARVO is becoming more common in the public lexicon. It stands for deny, attack, and reverse victim and offender. It’s most commonly used to help us to recognize the behaviours of abusive individuals and institutions, but after listening to an interview with Jennifer Freyd, Ph.D., the person who coined the term, I realized that the concept has far broader implications.
We also see DARVO on the institutional level. The Catholic Church denied that members of its clergy were sexually abusing children. It tried to attack the people pressing charges claiming that they just wanted the church’s money. They portrayed the abusers as “men who had given so much to their communities and now were being humiliated and forced to stand trial.”
The Oka crisis 33 years ago was classic DARVO. Mohawk rights to their territory were denied. The Sûreté du Québec attacked the Mohawks when they refused to leave their land, and eventually, the Canadian Army was called out. Oh, but the white citizens of Oka and the Montréal area were the victims because they were inconvenienced by Mohawk blockades.
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