"Stockholm Syndrome" was invented by police to discredit a female hostage (2020)
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#3A recent similar example is dying of "Excited Delirium" https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4951, which was made up by police and the taser manufacturer
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#4Presumably this was a one-off PR move, that wasn't intended to make it into common culture like this.
I wonder how many things we consider to be common sense are actually due to this kind of thing.
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#5My immediate thought to the headline was newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst who was kidnapped and ended up participating with her kidnappers to rob multiple banks in the 1970s. It was an amazing story at the time (I was in college).
https://apnews.com/article/patty-hearst-kidnapping-anniversa...
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#6Two-word phrases are rarely preferable to a single word. So let’s just use “hybristophilia” instead.
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#7> I fully trust Clark and the robber
This story reminds me of the energy some women have for serial killers[0]. Looks like that's called Hybristophilia[1] instead of Stockholm Syndrome.
[0]https://www.fox4now.com/news/local-news/lee-county/let-wade-...
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#8I'm glad to learn more about the incident itself, but honestly the article does not give me a real reason to doubt that the phenomenon is real. Calling it a "diagnosis" is an attempt to medicalize it, which seems ridiculous as it is so incredibly situation-specific. And they in turn use this to attempt to undermine the "diagnosis" by a psychiatrist who never met with the patient; clearly meeting the patient and being able to interrogate them should be a significant part of a medical diagnosis, but this is not that, so it's an irrelevant criticism.
The hostages were held at gunpoint under the threat of execution, and even after a successful rescue with no hostages injured, they sided with their captors against the authorities. Nothing here seems to contradict that or the phenomenon.
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#9It's the kind of idea that is captivating from a literary perspective but doesn't actually make any sense if you think about it, which is why it has showed up in so many movies, tv shows, novels, etc. My favorite subversion is in Die Hard where the person on TV is explaining that the victims are likely bonding with their captors while a scene plays of Gruber and his gang terrorizing people who are huddled in fear.
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#10It's the kind of idea that is captivating from a literary perspective but doesn't actually make any sense if you think about it, which is why it has showed up in so many movies, tv shows, novels, etc. My favorite subversion is in Die Hard where the person on TV is explaining that the victims are likely bonding with their captors while a scene plays of Gruber and his gang terrorizing people who are huddled in fear.
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