Approximately 7% of people possess "Dark Triad" personality traits that make them expert gaslighters using DARVO techniques.

Deny, attack, and reverse victim and offender (DARVO) is a tactic a person may use to deflect responsibility onto an individual they have abused. It is a form of manipulation a person may use to ...

Is it possible that you got the whole thing backwards? Congratulations, you have just been mugged by DARVO, an acronym that stands for “Deny, attack, reverse victim and offender.” DARVO is a ...

Thanks to the work of Jennifer Freyd, one of the leading researchers on abuse, psychologists use the more precise term DARVO for this type of behavior. The acronym stands for: deny, attack ...

This isn’t just bluster, Trump is employing a psychological strategy called DARVO: Deny, attack and reverse victim and offender. DARVO is used to dodge accountability by shifting blame ...

Those with the misfortune of having seen cycles of abuse recognize the administration’s framework for governance by its acronym from psychology, DARVO: Deny, attack, reverse victim and offender.

Note: this article contains references to sexual assault. Diverting blame and playing the victim is a common tactic used by men accused of sexual harassment or assault — and those who choose to ...