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lindilou
I believe you are inquiring about Stockholm Syndrome
Definition
Stockholm syndrome refers to a group of psychological symptoms that occur in some persons in a captive or hostage situation. It has received considerable media publicity in recent years because it has been used to explain the behavior of such well-known kidnapping victims as Patty Hearst (1974) and Elizabeth Smart (2002). The term takes its name from a bank robbery in Stockholm, Sweden, in August 1973. The robber took four employees of the bank (three women and one man) into the vault with him and kept them hostage for 131 hours. After the employees were finally released, they appeared to have formed a paradoxical emotional bond with their captor; they told reporters that they saw the police as their enemy rather than the bank robber, and that they had positive feelings toward the criminal. The syndrome was first named by Nils Bejerot (1921–1988), a medical professor who specialized in addiction research and served as a psychiatric consultant to the Swedish police during the standoff at the bank. Stockholm syndrome is also known as Survival Identification Syndrome.
Description
Stockholm syndrome is considered a complex reaction to a frightening situation, and experts do not agree completely on all of its characteristic features or on the factors that make some people more susceptible than others to developing it. One reason for the disagreement is that it would be unethical to test theories about the syndrome by experimenting on human beings. The data for understanding the syndrome are derived from actual hostage situations since 1973 that differ considerably from one another in terms of location, number of people involved, and time frame. Another source of disagreement concerns the extent to which the syndrome can be used to explain other historical phenomena or more commonplace types of abusive relationships. Many researchers believe that Stockholm syndrome helps to explain certain behaviors of survivors of World War II concentration camps; members of religious cults; battered wives; incest survivors; and physically or emotionally abused children as well as persons taken hostage by criminals or terrorists.
Most experts, however, agree that Stockholm syndrome has three central characteristics:
- The hostages have negative feelings about the police or other authorities.
- The hostages have positive feelings toward their captor(s).
- The captors develop positive feelings toward the hostages.
Causes & symptoms..... read more here >>>> http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Stockholm+syndrome
| 10 years ago. Rating: 12 | |
Thanks, Lindi. I always wanted to know more about this……….
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MILLIE333
Stockholm`s Syndrome an example of where kidnapped people form a strong bond with their captors and can`t bring themselves to leave/escape often when they have many chances to do so...some would say they have some strange underlying feelings of "Love" for the person who is really their enemy there!..Just my view..well..and Specialist Dr`s views too?..
| 10 years ago. Rating: 5 | |
JPatrice
Its possible !
| 10 years ago. Rating: 5 | |
really u think so! i don't! u don't know wat might happen at the end! u don't know if u was being used no one knows!
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