From: "david", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The Stockholm Syndrome comes into play when a captive cannot escape, 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 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 tormenter!
The syndrome explains what happens in hostage-taking situations, but can
also be used to understand the behavior of battered spouses, members of
religious cults, Holocaust victims, household pets, and perhaps even users
of Internet Explorer. I think it may also help explain the popularity of
government and of the mass institutionalization of young people.
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David
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