what do you call it when a kidnapped person develops a "weird" relationship with the kidnapper?

Answer 1

The Stockholm Syndrome, a medical/phycological condition, when captives, through humiliation and suffering, start to identify and symphasise with their captors.
The term originates, from 1973 in Stockholm, Sweden, when an escaped convict entered a bank and took 3 women and a man hostage. After 6 days being locked in the vault, the 4 hostages, developed a closeness with the bank robber and refused to speak ill of the robber, and accused the police of trying to hurt them. They described the robber as kind. One woman when given the chance to leave refused and forensic evidence proves that one woman, willingly, had sex with the bank robber. A year after the ordeal, one of the original hostages, a woman, visited the robber in prison.

Answer 2

Stockholm Syndrome, in which the vicitims start to identify with the captors, and do captaors' biddings most willingly in order to gain the sense of security to keep themselves feel safe.


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Answer 3

It's called Stockholm Syndrome and I dont think it's fair to call it 'weird' unless you know what it is like. Most of us will never be able to comprhend what someone like Natascha Kampusch has been through, thank goodness.

Answer 4

Stockholm syndrome.

Answer 5

the Stockholm syndrome

Answer 6

It is called the "Stockholm Syndrome"

Answer 7

You may be thinking of so-called Stockholm syndrome, where captives begin to sympathise with their captors.

Answer 8

if you mean like Patty Hurst it is called the "Stockholm syndrome"