Stockholm Bank robbery (Stockholm syndrome)?Why did the employees favor the robbers after they were freed? What were their pleas in support of the robbers? |
Stockholm Bank robbery (Stockholm syndrome)?Why did the employees favor the robbers after they were freed? What were their pleas in support of the robbers? |
The Stockholm Syndrome comes into play when a captive cannot escape and is isolated and threatened with death, but is shown token acts of kindness by the captor. It typically takes about three or four days for the psychological shift to take hold. A strategy of trying to keep your captor happy in order to stay alive becomes an obsessive identification (defense mechanism) with the likes and dislikes of the captor which has the result of warping your own psyche in such a way that you come to sympathize with your tormentor.
I don't know exact statements made by captives but many stated that they were more afraid of the police than their captors.