DARVO
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English
Etymology
Acronym of “Deny, Attack, and Reverse Victim and Offender”. Coined by Jennifer J. Freyd in “Violations of power, adaptive blindness, and betrayal trauma theory” (1997), Feminism & Psychology.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈdɑː.vəʊ/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈdɑɹ.voʊ/
- Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)vəʊ
- Hyphenation: dar‧vo
Noun
DARVO (uncountable)
- Acronym of deny, attack, and reverse victim and offender, a behavior of perpetrators of wrongdoing (especially sexual offenders), when accused of attacking their victim, reversing the roles of victim and offender.
- 2020 May 20, Brian Stelter, “Matt Lauer responds to rape allegation from Ronan Farrow’s ‘Catch & Kill’”, in CNN:
- And Nevils tweeted the acronym DARVO and spelled it out: “Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender.” DARVO is a “perpetrator strategy,” according to the professor who coined the term, Jennifer Freyd.
- 2023 September 12, Jayna Bardahl, “College football’s overrated, underrated teams: Ole Miss, Duke and Alabama”, in The New York Times:
- Tracy directly replied to Tucker’s statement saying, “This is just more of the same DARVO, deflection, victim blaming and lies that I’ve been dealing with now for months.”
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:DARVO.
See also
- crybully (a person who uses this tactic)
- gaslighting
- metastasis (a similar strategy in rhetoric)