If your like me, you love your Law and Order; especially Law and Order: SVU. Well, the other day I was watching the show, and a character said something about Stockholm Syndrome. Well, I looked it up, and in fact, it's a psychiatric diagnoses. It happens when a victim is kept over a long period of time, and forms an emotional bond with there captor. It's named after a bank robbing in 1973, when robbers held employees hostage for 6 days. When the hostages were rescued, they defended their captors because they had formed an emotional bond with them. All this happened at Kreditbanken in Norrmalmstron, Stockholm. The first to use the term "Stockholm Syndrome" was a psychiatrist named Nils Bejerot; Bejerot assisted the police in getting the hostages out. I guess everything on television isn't fake!
This is the bank:
Hey its Olaf the SWISS VIKING that sounds scary were did it originate.
ReplyDeleteI'm afraid vikings are only Scandanavian, there is no such thing as a swiss viking.
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