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-The feelings of trust or affection felt in many cases of kidnapping or hostage taking felt by the victim towards the captor.
-Stockholm syndrome got its name in 1973 when 2 theives in a bank in Stockholm (Sweden) took 4 bank employees hostage.
-For 6 days these prisoners were held in a bank vault, tied to explosives with nooses around their necks.
-During a rescue event police were shocked that the captives took offence and sided with the captors.
-In order for Stockholm syndrome to develop a victim must also perceive that their captors have shown occasional kindness.
(eg. being permitted to eat, not being punished for something or being allowed to live)
-Psychologically in order to get through a dangerous and traumatic situation is to attach ourselves to the captors as way for us to survive it.
4 aspects must be present for this disorder to develop
1.They must feel threatened (physically or psychologically) and actually believe that the captor will act on that threat.
2.Abuser shows some small kindness (humanises them)
3.Isolated from other perspectives
4.Escape seems impossible
-Ms Kampusch, who escaped from Priklopil's house in 2006, was widely believed to be suffering from Stockholm syndrome after repeatedly sympathising with her captor.
"I feel more and more sorry for him - he's a poor soul,' she told a documentary, and after he threw himself in front of a train she said, 'I mourn for him in a certain way"
-Austrian kidnap victim Natascha Kampusch said in one sense she felt like her captor had become her 'family'
-Police claimed that she started weeping when she found out about Priklopil's death.
-In her book about her time in captivity, Ms Kampusch wrote how she became 'grateful' to Prikpol for allowing her to go swimming in the forest.
"I was immeasurably grateful to the kidnapper for such small pleasures. I still am"
"Back then, I clung to even the tiniest human gesture, because I needed to see goodness in a world in which I could change nothing."
"Within the evil, at least brief moments of normality were possible."
"One day, I even told him: ‘I forgive you, because everyone makes mistakes sometimes.’ "
"In a sense, the man who’d stolen me, who’d taken my family and identity away from me, became my new ‘family’. His psychopathic fantasies became my reality."