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Stockholm syndrome is a proposed condition or theory that tries to explain why hostages sometimes develop a psychological bond with their captors. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Stockholm syndrome is a "contested illness" due to doubts about the legitimacy of the condition.
Few realize that ‘Stockholm Syndrome’ is a term that was foisted on a woman by a male psychiatrist who had never met her after a Swedish bank heist worthy of a movie. Fifty years after the ...
A fictionalized version of the robbery is told in Stockholm, a 2018 Canadian film directed by Robert Budreau. [24] The podcast Criminal spoke with Olofsson about the Norrmalmstorg robbery in the episode "Hostage". [25] In 2022, Netflix produced a six-episode series named Clark, directed by Jonas Åkerlund and starring Bill Skarsgård as Clark ...
Nils Johan Artur Bejerot (September 21, 1921 – November 29, 1988) was a Swedish psychiatrist and criminologist best known for his work on drug abuse and for coining the phrase Stockholm syndrome. [1] Bejerot was one of the top drug abuse researchers in Sweden.
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On 23 August 1973, he was inside the Pressbyrån store in central Stockholm, where he masked himself. [6] He then entered Kreditbanken with a submachine gun [ 7 ] under his jacket [ 1 ] and took four people hostage, demanding that Clark Olofsson be brought to him [ 5 ] along with 3 million Swedish krona . [ 7 ]
Comedian Whitney Cummings told her podcast listeners this week that the left has become so hypocritical and censorious that she had to start calling it out in public.
The Oslo Syndrome: Delusions of a People Under Siege is a 2005 book by Kenneth Levin, a psychiatrist with doctorate in history. [1] The book applies psychiatric insights to the Arab-Israel conflict by arguing that Israel's reaction to perceived Arab hostility is a corollary of the Stockholm syndrome in which hostages come to identify and empathize with their captors.