Stockholm syndrome, or capture–bonding, is a psychological - TopicsExpress



          

Stockholm syndrome, or capture–bonding, is a psychological phenomenon in which hostages express empathy and sympathy and have positive feelings toward their captors or abusers, sometimes to the point of defending them, and sometimes the feeling of love for the captor shows.It suggests that the bonding is the individual’s response to trauma in becoming a victim. Identifying with the aggressor is one way that the ego defends itself. In believing the agressors same values they cease to be a threat
Posted on: Tue, 16 Jul 2013 19:20:13 +0000

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