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What is "Stockholm syndrome": Here is the story behind it

2022-10-21 21:44:19Fokus SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
What is "Stockholm syndrome": Here is the story behind it
What is "Stockholm Syndrome"

In August 1973, a failed attempt to rob the Kreditbanka bank in Stockholm, Sweden ended in the armed robbers taking four employees hostage.

After six days of negotiations between the Swedish police and the hostage-takers, the crisis was resolved satisfactorily and the hostages were released unharmed – barring their strange behavior in the days, weeks and months following the incident.

The victims of this common act of terrorism, while held captive in a bank basement, became spiritually connected to the criminals who held them hostage, to the point of showing understanding of the reasons for this act and then trying to provide help. financial resources to pay for the legal defense of their former executioners and to appear in court to testify in favor of the robbers.

Psychologists who studied this seemingly absurd reaction called it "Stockholm syndrome".

It was immediately noticed that this syndrome was commonly encountered in hostage situations, but also in other situations where one party could freely exercise extreme violence against the other party: in prisons and concentration camps, in relationships between exploiters and prostitutes, or even in families where the husband abused his wife or children.

According to some authors, Stockholm syndrome appears in many different circumstances:

-A person is threatened to kill another person, and appears to be able to do so.

-The threatened person cannot leave this situation, therefore he perceives his life as in the hands of the abuser.

-The threatened person is isolated from the surrounding environment, in the sense that the only perspective he has is closely related to that of the threatening person.

-The threatening person, from time to time, shows some compassion towards the victim.

According to some authors, three or four days in this type of situation are enough for the victim to start feeling sympathy or understanding for the executioner. This is explained by the victim's adoption of an almost instinctive strategy to survive, by pleasing the person whose life is in their hands and identifying with their worldview. Also, in victims, the initial fear of the executioner gradually turns into gratitude, that he is "saving" their lives.

Many studies have been done on the psychological damage of totalitarian violence to arrestees and prisoners, or even to the population in general, who coexisted with this regime. It is a fact that the above-mentioned four circumstances that generate a psychological response of the Stockholm Syndrome type have been typical of life under the police regime of dictators and have greatly influenced the people's "love" for totalitarian executioners.


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