Dr. Jennifer Freyd
Jennifer Joy Freyd, PhD, is Professor Emerit of Psychology at the University of Oregon and the Founder and President of the Center for Institutional Courage. Freyd is a widely published scholar known for her theories of betrayal trauma, institutional betrayal, institutional courage, and DARVO. Freyd is also the author of the Harvard Press award-winning book Betrayal Trauma: The Logic of Forgetting Childhood Abuse. Her most recent book Blind to Betrayal, co-authored with Pamela J. Birrell, was published by John Wiley, with seven additional translations. Freyd has received numerous awards including being named a John Simon Guggenheim Fellow, an Erskine Fellow at The University of Canterbury in New Zealand, and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The International Society for the Study of Trauma & Dissociation selected Freyd for the Lifetime Achievement Award.
