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August 29, 2011

Welcome to the Land of Emotional Reasoning: I’d Turn Back if I Were You

Welcome to the Land of Emotional Reasoning, where feelings trump facts and special snowflakes are beholden to nothing and no one. Directly to the north, you’ll find Never-Never Take Responsibility Land, and just to the south lies the Land Where It’s Always Somebody Else’s Fault. Wikipedia defines emotional reasoning as “a cognitive error that occurs […]

Filed Under: Abuse, Accountability, Blame, Custody, Divorce, Domestic Violence, High-Conflict, Parental Alienation, Personality Disorders, Physical Abuse, Professional Victims, Psychological Abuse Tagged With: abuse, abused men, abusive wife, abusive women, borderline personality disorder, critical thinking, emotional reasoning, high-conflict divorce, high-conflict people, high-conflict women, narcissistic personality disorder, parental alienation, persuasive blamers

January 19, 2011

What Is DARVO? Deny, Attack, and Reverse Victim and Offender

What is DARVO? Deny, attack and reverse victim and offender. Have you ever wondered why your narcissistic or borderline spouse, girlfriend, boyfriend or ex is able to do and say the most hurtful, underhanded and contemptible things and then portray themselves as the innocent victim? Do you marvel at how they’re able to aggress and […]

Filed Under: Abuse, Accountability, Antisocial Personality Disorder, Blame, Borderline Personality Disorder, Divorce, Domestic Violence, High-Conflict, Histrionic Personality Disorder, Narcissistic Personality Disorder, Personality Disorders, Physical Abuse, Professional Victims, Psychological Abuse, Sexual Abuse Tagged With: abuse, abused men, abusive personality-disordered individuals, abusive women, antisocial personality disorder, borderline personality disorder, bullying, ClusterB personality disorders, DARVO, denial, domestic violence, emotional abuse, false allegations, gaslighting, high-conflict individuals, high-conflict people, histrionic personality disorder, intimidation, minimization, narcissistic personality disorder, persuasive blamers, projection, psychological abuse, smear campaign

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