What is stockholm syndrome?

Question

Im doing an essay on hazing and somehow stockholm syndrome is related to it....

Answer 1

stockholm syndrome is like when someone has been kidnapped and after a while instead of being scared of the person they become attached and end up not wanting to leave them

Answer 2

Stockholm syndrome is a psychological response sometimes seen in an abducted hostage, in which the hostage shows signs of loyalty to the hostage-taker, regardless of the danger (or at least risk) in which the hostage has been placed. Stockholm syndrome is also sometimes discussed in reference to other situations with similar tensions, such as battered person syndrome, rape cases, child abuse cases and bride kidnapping. The syndrome is named after the Norrmalmstorg robbery of Kreditbanken at Norrmalmstorg, Stockholm, Sweden, in which the bank robbers held bank employees hostage from August 23 to August 28 in 1973. In this case, the victims became emotionally attached to their victimizers, and even defended their captors after they were freed from their six-day ordeal. The term Stockholm Syndrome was coined by the criminologist and psychiatrist Nils Bejerot, who assisted the police during the robbery, and referred to the syndrome in a news broadcast.[1]



Kreditbanken at Norrmalmstorg, Stockholm

Answer 3

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_s...

Click on that link for info on it, Its actually very interesting.

Answer 4

To over simplify, it is when a victim over relates to the abuser.  Prisoners of WWII, held in Stockholm were resistive to leaving when released.  After all the torture, near starvation, and lockups they felt this was life's new normal.

Answer 5

Stockholm syndrome is a psychological response sometimes seen in an abducted hostage, in which the hostage shows signs of loyalty to the hostage-taker, ...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_syndro...

Answer 6

Stockholm Syndrome is a psychological survival mechanism. When you are in a situation in which you are relatively powerless (such as during hazing), you are more likely to survive if you are able to pacify the people who are imprisoning or intimidating you. As a result, you start to identify with them, starting to form an emotional bond, often justifying their actions to be "not so bad" or "understandable", and becoming honestly loyal to them. Hazing is meant to create a bond to an organization or group; and this tendency to bond to people who mistreat you is something it takes advantage of by creating trauma and keeping you in constant contact with members of the group during that time.

Stockholm Syndrome can also be found in military boot camps, abusive reform schools, cults, and mental institutions.

Answer 7

See the link for the wikipedia article on stockholm syndrome.

Basically, the connection to hazing is that victims sometimes form an emotional bond with their captors or tormentors, and this fits in with a hazing process.