DARVO Research, Institutional Courage, and Gloria Steinem
Dear Friends of Courage,
I am so pleased to announce the publication of two new resource pages on the Courage website.
One page presents a new database for research on DARVO (Deny, Attack, & Reverse Victim & Offender). The DARVO Research Tracking page explains the methodology used to create a database of 74 published articles about DARVO. Related to this new page, we now have a top level research tracking page which links to 3 separate tracking pages each with their own databases (Institutional betrayal and courage; DARVO; grants we have funded). All 3 of these databases will be updated on a regular basis. We expect that the new DARVO database will help people looking for what is known about DARVO as well as inspire more research to fill the knowledge gaps. More information about this new page and the growing research base will be presented in the October issue of the Courage Brief.
The other new page displays live tracking of media applications of institutional courage and related concepts at the heart of our research and education mission. This new insights page allows us to track the exponentially-growing impact we are having on understanding current challenges.
I am also glad to announce two new calls for submissions for special issues of scholarly journals:
Call for submissions for a special issue on institutional courage, to be published in the Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment, and Trauma, special issue editors Drs. Brianna Delker and Laura Noll
Call for submissions for a special issue on institutional betrayal , to be published in the Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, special issue editors Drs. Jennifer Gomez and Alexis Adams-Clark
It is good to see these different indications of the growing impact of research and education on institutional courage. Research and education are both investments in the future. These investments take time to pay off; iit is encouraging that we are already seeing results.
In closing I want to express my gratitude to the amazing Gloria Steinem who died on September 2 at the age of 92. A tremendously generous and brilliant human being, she courageously changed the world for the better. We will miss her at Courage and I will miss her personally. Ms. Steinem has been my friend since the early 1990s. Among the many generous things she has done for me and for Courage, is grace our home page with her photograph and her thoughts about our organization:
“Abuse by families, schools, employers and nations will only be healed by the institutional courage to transform into equitable places for us all. That's the job and the genius of the Center for Institutional Courage.”
-Gloria Steinem, 2020
With appreciation for your support of Courage,
Jennifer Joy Freyd, PhD
Founder and President
Center for Institutional Courage