Laura Zarrow with Jennifer Freyd, Professor of Psychology, University of Oregon
Jennifer Freyd is a Professor of Psychology at the University of OregonJennifer J. Freyd, PhD, is a professor of psychology at the University of Oregon and an author, consultant, and speaker. She is known for her influential theories about sexual assault and harassment including her theories of betrayal trauma, institutional betrayal, institutional courage, and DARVO (Deny, Attack, & Reverse Victim & Offender – a perpetrator strategy). The author or coauthor of over 200 articles, Freyd is also the author of the Harvard Press award-winning book Betrayal Trauma: The Logic of Forgetting Childhood Abuse. Freyd has received numerous awards including being named a John Simon Guggenheim Fellow, an Erskine Fellow at The University of Canterbury in New Zealand, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Society for the Study of Trauma & Dissociation. Freyd currently serves as the Editor of The Journal of Trauma & Dissociation and she is a Visiting Scholar at Stanford. Freyd attended the University of Pennsylvania for her undergraduate education and received her PhD in Psychology from Stanford University.Aired April 18, 2018