STOCKHOLM SYNDROME


Meaning of STOCKHOLM SYNDROME in English

noun Etymology: from a 1973 robbery attempt in Stockholm, Sweden, during which bank employees held hostage developed sympathetic feelings toward their captors Date: 1978 the psychological tendency of a hostage to bond with, identify with, or sympathize with his or her captor

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