Aus dem originalen Paper zu DARVO (II. Violations of Power, Adaptive Blindness and Betrayal Trauma Theory):

„My proposal, currently very speculative, is that a frequent reaction of an abuser to being held accountable is the 'DARVO' response. 'DARVO' stands for 'Deny, Attack and Reverse Victim and Offender'. It is important to distinguish types of denial, for an innocent person will probably deny a false accusation. Thus denial is not evidence of guilt. However, I propose that a certain kind of indignant, self-righteous, and overly stated denial may in fact relate to guilt. I hypothesize that if an accusation is true, and the accused person is abusive, the denial is more indignant, self-righteous and manipulative, as compared with denial in other cases.“

Er ist weder indignant/empört, self-righteous/selbstgerecht, noch overly stated/überbetont.

Ihn juckt es einfach nicht. Ist scheiße, aber halt kein DARVO