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I’m often asked to supply examples of institutional courage.

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It isn't an easy request to answer but I have been collecting examples.

Sometimes the acts of institutional courage are largely the result of a courageous institutional leader with the structural power to implement a courageous course.

1/ I was reading Science magazine, about NIH removing sex harassers from PI status for grants and came across a sentence that took my breath away:
"A larger number of NIH-funded scientists, 125, have been barred from serving as peer reviewers for grants. "
sciencemag.org/news/2021/06/n… 2/ You might think since I research this stuff I would have thought of this intervention -but perhaps it was just too close to home. Early in my career a senior powerful man whose advances I had rejected as a grad student retaliated against me via peer review.

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I appreciate this clear message from the National Law Review to employers regarding implications to them arising from the Ninth Circuit's decision regarding my pay inequity case.

"The decision is a reminder to employers . . .

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"The decision is a reminder to employers. . . to analyze carefully any pay gaps that emerge along gender lines and that cannot be clearly explained by differences in the type of work performed. In this case, even . . ."

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Just published Open Access: a new peer-reviewed research report about DARVO.

In this research @SarahHarsey and I report two primary findings about DARVO's influence.

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First background: In 2017 we reported that higher levels of exposure to DARVO were associated with self-blame among victims. This suggests DARVO is effective for perpetrators, as self-blame is associated with self-silencing.
The 2017 research:
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

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I am so proud to share this labor of love with the world — introducing the Center for Institutional Courage, Inc. @CourageforAll

institutionalcourage.org 2/ As many of you know, I’ve worked for many years on institutional betrayal. In 2019, I started incubating a new center to repair and prevent institutional betrayal.

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Even as the world is in chaos, science is here to steady us. I am grateful to @apdeprince and @DrJoanCook for this extraordinary article, using one of my original concepts, institutional betrayal, to explain this moment in time. Please read and RT.
theconversation.com/theres-a-name-… 2/
Some brief context on the science. We begin with betrayal trauma theory. The gist: mistreatment by someone you depend upon puts you in a terrible bind. If you fully know about the mistreatment you may risk the relationship by withdrawing or confronting. So . .

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"Weinstein's lead defense attorney, Donna Rotunno, tried to raise doubts about [Sciorra's account] . . .
"I didn’t understand that was rape," Sciorra said about the encounter.
"You were 33 years old," Rotunno said."
usatoday.com/story/entertai… 2/
First of all, DARVO alert. A: Attack the credibility of the victim.
I'm sure we will be seeing lots more DARVO coming from the defense.
dynamic.uoregon.edu/jjf/defineDARV…

I do not think I exaggerate when I say I was the first target of the FSMF. Michael Salter's thread about this group is terrific. I would like to add a few comments of my own, so I am starting my own thread. I begin by RTing Salter:

https://twitter.com/mike_salter/status/1211442594821001216

I communicate passionately and publicly as an intellectual and activist. At the same time, I'm also an introvert and speaking publicly about private matters is very hard for me. However --

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This morning I read something I wrote more than 20 years ago.

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What I read was – for the first time in years -- the Afterword of my book Betrayal Trauma: The Logic of Forgetting Childhood Abuse which was published in 1996. It was my first book.
amazon.com/Betrayal-Traum…

1/ So here we go again: a woman's memory of sexual assault is called a "false memory". One push-back may be that Dr. Blasey Ford never forgot the assault and everyone knows "false memory" is about "recovered memory". But this is wrong too (continued).
usatoday.com/story/news/pol… 2/ It is wrong because memory accuracy and memory persistence are conceptually independent aspects of memory. Freyd, J. J. (1998). Science in the Memory Debate. Ethics & Behavior, 8 (2), 101-113. dynamic.uoregon.edu/jjf/articles/f… (continued)