Stockholm syndrome: the name for the
bond of attraction that sometimes develops between abuser and abused, molester and
molested,
captor and captive, and in particular between terrorist and hostage. The term stems from the recent case of a woman held hostage at a bank in
Stockholm,
Sweden, who became so pairbondedly attached to one of the robbers that she broke her engagement to her prehostage lover and remained faithful to her captor during his prison term.
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