Cities with their own psychological disorders
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Cities with their own psychological disorders
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Re: Cities with their own psychological disorders
#2They missed Havana syndrome.
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#3I'm no expert, but wasn't Stockholm Syndrome debunked?
My understanding is that the response to the hostage taking was so incompetent that the hostages trusted the kidnappers more than the police. One of them was expected to "die at her post" by a bank executive. She refused to testify against them for these reasons rather than any sympathy to their cause.
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#4I'm no expert, but wasn't Stockholm Syndrome debunked? My understanding is that the response to the hostage taking was so incompetent that the hostages trusted the kidnappers more than the police. One of them was expected to "die at her post" by a bank executive. She refused to testify against them for these reasons rather than any sympathy to their cause.
> One of the hostages even became engaged to one of her captors
Was that also because of distrusting the police?
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#5They missed Havana syndrome.
Is that a psychological disorder? (I think the jury might still be out on that.)
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#6I'm no expert, but wasn't Stockholm Syndrome debunked? My understanding is that the response to the hostage taking was so incompetent that the hostages trusted the kidnappers more than the police. One of them was expected to "die at her post" by a bank executive. She refused to testify against them for these reasons rather than any sympathy to their cause.
> One of the hostages even became engaged to one of her captors Was that also because of distrusting the police?
> She had criticized the police for pointing guns at the convicts while the hostages were in the line of fire and she had told news outlets that one of the captors tried to protect the hostages from being caught in the crossfire
So yes, she became engaged to someone who tried to save her life from the police.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_syndrome#Stockholm_b...
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#7They missed Havana syndrome.
Isn't that just a civil service grift? As in, is actually a recognisable condition?
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#8They also missed the Glasgow effect - residents have a significantly lower life expectancy that the rest of the UK and, from memory so could be wrong, it affects people who's first line ancestry is from Glasgow but who themselves have never lived there.
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#9I'm no expert, but wasn't Stockholm Syndrome debunked? My understanding is that the response to the hostage taking was so incompetent that the hostages trusted the kidnappers more than the police. One of them was expected to "die at her post" by a bank executive. She refused to testify against them for these reasons rather than any sympathy to their cause.
> One of the hostages even became engaged to one of her captors Was that also because of distrusting the police?
As I said, I'm no expert. I read somewhere that it was a sexist response to this woman's criticisms.
Wikipedia states:
"He later got engaged to a woman who was not, despite what some state, one of the former hostages."
I think the whole article can be viewed with a healthy scepticism.
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#10I'm no expert, but wasn't Stockholm Syndrome debunked? My understanding is that the response to the hostage taking was so incompetent that the hostages trusted the kidnappers more than the police. One of them was expected to "die at her post" by a bank executive. She refused to testify against them for these reasons rather than any sympathy to their cause.
Yes, Stockholm syndrome is a toxic lie, a mix of mysoginy, covering up police incompetence and Swedish "holier-than-thou" attitude.
https://www.stadafa.com/2020/12/stockholm-syndrome-discredit...