DARVO: "Deny, Attack, and Reverse Victim and Offender." The...

DARVO: "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 whistle blower -- into an alleged offender. This occurs, for instance, when an actually guilty perpetrator assumes the role of "falsely accused" and attacks the accuser's credibility and blames the accuser of being the perpetrator of a false accusation.

https://dynamic.uoregon.edu/jjf/defineDARVO.html