It’s Vocabulary Day!

Steven Barnes
11 min readJul 1, 2019

Welcome to Uncle Steve’s Clubhouse, boys and girls! Today is vocabulary day, and we’re going to learn a new word. “DARVO.” Here’s a description:

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

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Steven Barnes

Steven Barnes is a NY Times bestselling author, ecstatic husband and father, and holder of black belts in three martial arts. www.lifewritingpodcast.com.