What is DARVO ?

Knowing about this manipulation tactic will increase the possibility of not being tricked by offenders playing the victim role this is why it's so important for you to know about this.

Jennifer Freyd defined DARVO as 

"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." 

D stands for DENY (the accusation of the victim)
A stands for ATTACK (the victim)
R stands for REVERSE (roles)
V stands for VICTIM 
O stands for OFFENDER

This sounds all too familiar to victims of covert narcissists, psychopaths, and narcissists. 

These types of interactions where the wrong doings of the psychopath are projected onto the real victim are exactly what targets of narcissistic abuse have to deal with every-single-day.

More on this in today's video.