Know, understand, counter DARVO, a core behaviour of coercive control abuse, especially used by authoritarians, fascists, abusers to divert blame, gaslight, scapegoat ‘other’ targets, inflict #trauma effects on those who dont recognise it, then gaslight target’s trauma effects as ‘mental illness’
Apostolos Stamenos@astamenos.bsky.social · 3mo agoDARVO: Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender. @jjfreyd.bsky.social named it in 1997. It never argues the facts. It attacks whoever raises them. The accuser becomes the accused; the question dies. You can't out-argue it from inside. astamenos.substack.com/p/the-reversal
