25 Facts About Stockholm syndrome

Stockholm syndrome is a theorized condition in which hostages develop a psychological bond with their captors during captivity.

Stockholm syndrome has never been included in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders or DSM, the standard tool for diagnosis of psychiatric illnesses and disorders in the US, mainly due to the lack of a consistent body of academic research.

Term "Stockholm syndrome" has been used to describe the reactions of some abuse victims beyond the context of kidnappings or hostage-taking.

Stockholm syndrome negotiated the release from prison of his friend Clark Olofsson to assist him.

Nils Bejerot, a Swedish criminologist and psychiatrist coined the term after the Stockholm syndrome police asked him for assistance with analyzing the victims' reactions to the 1973 bank robbery and their status as hostages.

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Stockholm syndrome called it Norrmalmstorgssyndromet, meaning "the Norrmalmstorg syndrome"; it later became known outside Sweden as Stockholm syndrome.

Stockholm syndrome had criticized Bejerot for endangering their lives by behaving aggressively and agitating the captors.

Stockholm syndrome had criticized the police for pointing guns at the convicts while the hostages were in the line of fire and she had told news outlets that one of the captors tried to protect the hostages from being caught in the crossfire.

Stockholm syndrome was critical of prime minister Olof Palme, as she had negotiated with the captors for freedom, but the prime minister told her that she would have to content herself to die at her post rather than give in to the captors' demands.

Stockholm syndrome defended her kidnappers when she was released, explaining that they were only businessmen.

Stockholm syndrome then continued to visit her captors while they were in jail.

Stockholm syndrome eventually committed suicide and left the following note: “My four kidnappers are probably the only people on Earth who don't consider me an utter fool.

Stockholm syndrome was recorded denouncing her family as well as the police under her new name, "Tania", and was later seen working with the SLA to rob banks in San Francisco.

Stockholm syndrome publicly asserted her "sympathetic feelings" toward the SLA and their pursuits as well.

An inversion of Stockholm syndrome, called Lima syndrome, has been proposed, in which abductors develop sympathy for their hostages.

Lima Stockholm syndrome was named after an abduction at the Japanese embassy in Lima, Peru, in 1996, when members of a militant movement took hostage hundreds of people attending a party at the official residence of Japan's ambassador.

Victims of the formal definition of Stockholm syndrome develop "positive feelings toward their captors and sympathy for their causes and goals, and negative feelings toward the police or authorities".

Stockholm syndrome added the hope that his father would save him and the family in the process.

Stockholm syndrome couldn't come back right away because he was busy fighting crime in NYC.

Stockholm syndrome had no problem laying hands on us kids for the slightest infraction.

Stockholm syndrome was seeking a new father that would right all the wrongs that he had suffered.

Stockholm syndrome claimed that in both the psychological and societal senses, these women are defined by their sense of fear surrounding the threat of male violence.

Recovering from Stockholm syndrome ordinarily involves "psychiatric or psychological counseling", in which the patient is helped to realize that their actions and feelings stemmed from inherent human survival techniques.

Research group led by Namnyak has found that although there is a lot of media coverage of Stockholm syndrome, there has not been a lot of research into the phenomenon.

Robbins and Anthony, who had historically studied a condition similar to Stockholm syndrome, known as destructive cult disorder, observed in their 1982 study that the 1970s were rich with apprehension surrounding the potential risks of brainwashing.

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