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To: olde north church

Stockholm syndrome in just 2 weeks???

Don't think so.


1,032 posted on 08/27/2006 2:47:17 PM PDT by sauropod (Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys." PJO)
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To: sauropod; All
Stockholm syndrome in just 2 weeks???

Don't think so.

Sorry, I do think so ... twice over ...

First reported case

Dear Yahoo!:

What is "Stockholm Syndrome"?

Ben

Cincinnati, Ohio

Dear Ben:

Stockholm Syndrome describes the behavior of kidnap victims who, over time, become sympathetic to their captors. The name derives from a 1973 hostage incident in Stockholm, Sweden. At the end of six days of captivity in a bank, several kidnap victims actually resisted rescue attempts, and afterwards refused to testify against their captors.

While some people are suggesting the recent Elizabeth Smart kidnapping sounds like a case of Stockholm Syndrome, the most famous incident in the U.S. involved the kidnapped heiress Patty Hearst. Captured by a radical political group known as the Symbionese Liberation Army in 1974, Ms. Hearst eventually became an accomplice of the group, taking on an assumed name and assisting them in several bank robberies. After her re-capture, she denounced the group and her involvement.

http://ask.yahoo.com/20030324.html

1,034 posted on 08/27/2006 2:58:00 PM PDT by olde north church (Absolutism is ALWAYS wrong.)
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