Commentaries and Resources on this Site

Jennifer J. Freyd

Note: This page is out of date and no longer maintained. See Current Editorials Page

Informational Pages About Trauma and Memory on this Site

• DARVO
• Institutional Betrayal & Institutional Courage
• Betrayal Trauma Theory
• Recovered Memories
• Disclosure of Trauma
• Compelled Disclosure: The Problem with "Mandatory Reporting"
• What is Shareability?
• Tips: Be a Good Listener (and links to Lean In Foundation Discussion Guides)

Commentaries on Psychology of Trauma

• Mandatory Reporting Is Exactly Not What Victims Need, The Chronicle of Higher Education (published on-line 22 July 2022).
• Who's Really the Victim Here? It's time to end DARVO behavior in the healthcare workplace, MedPage Today, 2 June 2022.
• What does COVID-19 transmission have in common with sexism and harassment? As it turns out, quite a bit. Gender News, Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford University, 8 November 2021.
• South Park DARVO Explainer, 7 November 2019.
• Is a quote from Chanel Miller’s impact statement likely to be ‘triggering’ if placed on a plaque at the contemplative garden? The Stanford Daily, 22 October 2019.
• Why victims of Catholic priests need to hear more than confessions January 2019
• Institutional Courage -- 10 Steps to take-- When sexual assault victims speak out, their institutions often betray them, (Republished by Salon, LA Times, Chicago Tribune, AP, and many others.) January 2018
• DARVO & Trump op-ed in The Boston Globe December 2017
• Compelled Disclosure: "Required Reporting"
• Examining Denial Tactics: Were Victims Overrepresented in the AAU Survey of Sexual Violence on College Campuses? (2015)
• Use science as tool on campus sexual assault (2014)
• Official campus statistics for sexual violence mislead (2014)
• Institutional betrayal makes violence more toxic (2014)
• Preventing Betrayal by Avoiding Pathologizing Language (2013)
• HuffPost Blog Post about Betrayal Blindness, April 2013
• BMJ Letter -- Betrayal of Ethics and Interrogation of Detainees, May 2009
• Letter to NIMH from APA Division 56 Science Committee about funding trauma research Dec 2007
• Watchdog Sex Offender Website & False Sense of Security, Jan 2007
• Letter to Associated Press regarding language of child sexual abuse, Aug 2006
• Science Magazine policy forum on child sexual abuse, April 2005, and response August 2005
• R-G letter: "Affair" minimizes act of rape, May 2004
• R-G Op Ed: Capturing the Friedman's 2004
• Memory for Abuse: What can we learn from a Prosecution Sample? 2003
• Commentary: Media Coverage of Bugs Bunny in Disneyland, February 2003
• ASAP Commentary: Terrorism, Hate Crimes, Emotions 2002
• R-G Letter about accuracy of recovered memories, 5 Feb 1998
• Letter in the Women's Review of Books about Recovered Memories, April 1998

Other Commentaries and Resources on This Site

• References on Chilly Climate for Women Faculty
• Professor Emerit (Not a Typo) February 2021
• UO Sends Wrong Message with Cheerleaders (2015)
• UO needs to take action to restore students’ trust (2015)
• A Plea to University Researchers about Human Subject Pools (2012)
• Intellectual integrity, and the problems of McEthics (2011) 
• Driving while talking on cell phones, June 2009
• Plagiarism in the classroom -- an R-G essay by my daughter, Nov 2008
• Letter to Scientific American about sexism, 2008
• Hyde's Leona Tyler Lecture 2002
• Letter in the Monitor about the Top 100 Psychologists, September 2002
• Beliefs about "Rule of Thumb", 1998
• Images of Women/ unpublished Letter to the New Yorker, 1998
• Faculty members with young children need more flexible schedules, 1990

See Also

• The Center for Institutional Courage
• Some journals that focus on psychological trauma and abuse
• Links to people and organizations
• Freyd and/or Dynamics Lab in the news

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