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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsKavanaugh's Jekyll & Hyde Personas Are Classic for an Abuser
Anyone with any experience with domestic violence is all too familiar with this type of personality. Excessive drinking only exacerbates the problem.
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Kavanaugh's Jekyll & Hyde Personas Are Classic for an Abuser (Original Post)
dlk
Oct 2018
OP
It's clearly the case.
underthematrix
(5,811 posts)4. Yes. It makes me worry for the safety of his wife and those
two precious little girls.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)5. Same here,scary thought,
have seen it in our own family. Ask yourself what the Trigger will be.
dawnie51
(959 posts)6. Some day.....
maybe soon, may take a while, but some day, the wife will come forth as abused. As I watched her last week, she just seemed completely done in.
pandr32
(11,959 posts)7. True and to the point
CousinIT
(9,727 posts)8. That, and DARVO
https://dynamic.uoregon.edu/jjf/defineDARVO.html
Short Definition of DARVO
DARVO refers to a reaction perpetrators of wrong doing, particularly sexual offenders, may display in response to being held accountable for their behavior. DARVO stands for "Deny, Attack, and Reverse Victim and Offender." The perpetrator or offender may Deny the behavior, Attack the individual doing the confronting, and Reverse the roles of Victim and Offender such that the perpetrator assumes the victim role and turns the true victim -- or the whistle blower -- into an alleged offender. This occurs, for instance, when an actually guilty perpetrator assumes the role of "falsely accused" and attacks the accuser's credibility and blames the accuser of being the perpetrator of a false accusation.
In a 2017 peer-reviewed open-access research study, Perpetrator Responses to Victim Confrontation: DARVO and Victim Self-Blame, Harsey, Zurbriggen, & Freyd reported that: " 1) DARVO was commonly used by individuals who were confronted; (2) women were more likely to be exposed to DARVO than men during confrontations; (3) the three components of DARVO were positively correlated, supporting the theoretical construction of DARVO; and (4) higher levels of exposure to DARVO during a confrontation were associated with increased perceptions of self-blame among the confronters. These results provide evidence for the existence of DARVO as a perpetrator strategy and establish a relationship between DARVO exposure and feelings of self-blame. Exploring DARVO aids in understanding how perpetrators are able to enforce victims silence through the mechanism of self-blame."
In our newest research, still under review, Sarah Harsey and I completed two experiments. In one experiment we presented participants with accounts of abuse followed by a DARVO response versus a control response. We found exposure to the DARVO response was associated with less belief of the victim and more blame of the victim. In the second experiment Sarah Harsey and I examined whether learning about DARVO could mitigate its effects on individuals' perceptions of perpetrators and victims. DARVO-educated participants (compared with control) rated the perpetrator as less believable. While much more research is needed, these results suggest that DARVO is an effective strategy to discredit victims but that the power of the strategy can be mitigated by education.
Institutional DARVO occurs when the DARVO is committed by an institution (or with institutional complicity) as when police charge rape victims with lying. Institutional DARVO is a pernicious form of institutional betrayal.
DARVO Discussed:
Kavanaugh's opening remarks are a master class in a common sexual abuser defense tactic by Wagatwe Wanjuki, Daily Kos, 27 September 2018.
Short Definition of DARVO
DARVO refers to a reaction perpetrators of wrong doing, particularly sexual offenders, may display in response to being held accountable for their behavior. DARVO stands for "Deny, Attack, and Reverse Victim and Offender." The perpetrator or offender may Deny the behavior, Attack the individual doing the confronting, and Reverse the roles of Victim and Offender such that the perpetrator assumes the victim role and turns the true victim -- or the whistle blower -- into an alleged offender. This occurs, for instance, when an actually guilty perpetrator assumes the role of "falsely accused" and attacks the accuser's credibility and blames the accuser of being the perpetrator of a false accusation.
In a 2017 peer-reviewed open-access research study, Perpetrator Responses to Victim Confrontation: DARVO and Victim Self-Blame, Harsey, Zurbriggen, & Freyd reported that: " 1) DARVO was commonly used by individuals who were confronted; (2) women were more likely to be exposed to DARVO than men during confrontations; (3) the three components of DARVO were positively correlated, supporting the theoretical construction of DARVO; and (4) higher levels of exposure to DARVO during a confrontation were associated with increased perceptions of self-blame among the confronters. These results provide evidence for the existence of DARVO as a perpetrator strategy and establish a relationship between DARVO exposure and feelings of self-blame. Exploring DARVO aids in understanding how perpetrators are able to enforce victims silence through the mechanism of self-blame."
In our newest research, still under review, Sarah Harsey and I completed two experiments. In one experiment we presented participants with accounts of abuse followed by a DARVO response versus a control response. We found exposure to the DARVO response was associated with less belief of the victim and more blame of the victim. In the second experiment Sarah Harsey and I examined whether learning about DARVO could mitigate its effects on individuals' perceptions of perpetrators and victims. DARVO-educated participants (compared with control) rated the perpetrator as less believable. While much more research is needed, these results suggest that DARVO is an effective strategy to discredit victims but that the power of the strategy can be mitigated by education.
Institutional DARVO occurs when the DARVO is committed by an institution (or with institutional complicity) as when police charge rape victims with lying. Institutional DARVO is a pernicious form of institutional betrayal.
DARVO Discussed:
Kavanaugh's opening remarks are a master class in a common sexual abuser defense tactic by Wagatwe Wanjuki, Daily Kos, 27 September 2018.
B Stieg
(2,410 posts)10. Good source! Thx! (nt)
REGISTER and VOTE!
yardwork
(63,342 posts)15. Trump's typical response. Kavanaugh and Trump are a lot alike.
CousinIT
(9,727 posts)16. Kavanaugh is Trump w/ a law degree.
Both are vile.
BigmanPigman
(52,129 posts)9. Drinking is what puts it over the top!
SCARY!
gademocrat7
(10,983 posts)11. K&Rnt
appalachiablue
(42,343 posts)12. K & R
mysteryowl
(7,693 posts)13. Yes. This was discussed on Democracy Now as well.
His behavior is classic abuser. The "I'm sorry" "I didn't mean to do it" and then will repeat abusive actions over and over.
JoeOtterbein
(7,758 posts)14. Yes and the KavaCreeps and abusers vote too. A big part of Trump's 35%.
Thanks for the post.