Abuse by Plausible Deniability

Hi everyone, thank you all so much for joining me for today's podcast episode.

Today we're going to be discussing abuse by plausible deniability.

So we're going to talk about what is plausible deniability, how to identify if you are a victim of plausible deniability, and then ultimately what to do if you are a victim, how to heal, how to overcome plausible deniability.

So throughout this episode, I'm going to share a paraphrase from an article from arthurparish.com. Arthur Parrish is the author of this article.

It's titled Plausible Deniability in Relationships and How to Identify the Psychological Attacks, a wonderful article which is very helpful to help clarify and understand and ultimately express and articulate just how subtle, how nuanced, and how insidious this form of abuse is.

So to begin, what is plausible deniability? So plausible deniability or culpable deniability when used intentionally is a manipulative social tactic that allows an individual to deny knowledge, intent, or responsibility for a harmful action or utterance because the victim lacks proof of the manipulator's intentions.

It works to let someone evade accountability by keeping the situation open to multiple interpretations, letting the manipulator try and pass off harmful behavior as accidents or misinterpretations.

This often causes the victim to doubt their own reality of events, similarly to the more commonly known term of gaslighting.