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Former Kreditbanken building in Stockholm, Sweden, the location of the 1973 Norrmalmstorg robbery (photographed in 2005). Stockholm syndrome is a proposed condition or theory that tries to explain why hostages sometimes develop a psychological bond with their captors.
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 ...
The Norrmalmstorg robbery was a bank robbery and hostage crisis that occurred at the Norrmalmstorg Square in Stockholm, Sweden, in August 1973 and was the first crime in Sweden to be covered by live television. It is best known as the origin of the term Stockholm syndrome. [1]
The woman's grave has been on display at the Swedish History Museum in Stockholm since 1943. First in the exhibition "10 000 years in Sweden" and most recently in the exhibition "Ancient Times". During new exhibitions, the position of the woman in the grave has shifted and in recent years there has been a discussion about the position of the ...
The Swedish History Museum (Swedish: Historiska museet or Statens historiska museum) is a museum located in Stockholm, Sweden, that covers Swedish archaeology and cultural history from the Mesolithic period to present day. Founded in 1866, it operates as a government agency and is tasked with preserving Swedish historical items as well as ...
The main hall. The museum building. The Nordic Museum (Swedish: Nordiska museet) is a museum located on Djurgården, an island in central Stockholm, Sweden, dedicated to the cultural history and ethnography of Sweden from the early modern period (in Swedish history, it is said to begin in 1520) to the contemporary period.
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Stockholm, Sweden ... Inauguration of the women's ... eventually giving birth the term Stockholm syndrome.
Långholmens rasp- och spinnhus, commonly known as Långholmens spinnhus, was a women's prison in Långholmen, Stockholm, Sweden. [1] The prison was established in 1649 when the Malmgården in Alstavik at Långholmen was erected, and was closed in 1825. [2] The building became state property in 1724 and was used as a spinnhus (thread-spinning ...