Looking back on your relationship post-divorce, you may be wondering whether you were married to a narcissist. This piece gives you some clues.
When a man is a narcissist, he'll do anything to come
out on top. Even if it means willingly playing the victim by using a defensive
manipulation technique called "DARVO" — something Brett Kavanaugh recently did during his Senate
Judiciary Committee hearing.
What is DARVO?
Jennifer
J. Freyd, PhD, a professor of psychology at the University of Oregon,
coined this acronym to describe one typical "reaction perpetrators of
wrong doing, particularly sexual offenders, may display in response to being
held accountable for their behavior."
"DARVO," she explains, "stands for
"Deny, Attack, and Reverse Victim and Offender," the pattern through
which an abuser seamlessly shifts focus away from their own behavior to that of
their accuser.
