Stockholm Syndrome

The Stockholm syndrome occurs in people who kidnapped, after the risk situation they went through, begin to nurture a certain kind of sympathy for their captors. There are also reported cases of this syndrome in women who catch their husbands, raped and abused children.

This disorder has earned its name after a bank robbery in Stockholm, Sweden, where the hostages, despite passing under the control of bandits day 23 to August 28, 1973, demanded that the police release them and refused to testify against .