<story><title>Cities with their own psychological disorders</title><url>https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/cities-with-psychological-syndromes-stockholm</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>meigwilym</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m no expert, but wasn&amp;#x27;t Stockholm Syndrome debunked?&lt;p&gt;My understanding is that the response to the hostage taking was so incompetent that the hostages trusted the kidnappers more than the police. One of them was expected to &amp;quot;die at her post&amp;quot; by a bank executive. She refused to testify against them for these reasons rather than any sympathy to their cause.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>praptak</author><text>Well this article seems to classify it as pure bullshit:
&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.stadafa.com&amp;#x2F;2020&amp;#x2F;12&amp;#x2F;stockholm-syndrome-discredit.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.stadafa.com&amp;#x2F;2020&amp;#x2F;12&amp;#x2F;stockholm-syndrome-discredit...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;The psychiatrist who invented it, Nils Bejerot, never spoke to the woman he based it on, never bothered to ask her why she trusted her captors more than the authorities.  More to the point, during the Swedish bank heist that inspired the syndrome, Bejerot was the psychiatrist leading the police response.  He was the authority that Kristin Enmark – the first woman diagnosed with Stockholm syndrome – distrusted.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;On the radio, Enmark criticized the police, and singled out Bejerot.  In response, and without once speaking to her, Bejerot dismissed her comments as the product of a syndrome he made up: ‘Norrmalmstorg syndrome’ (later renamed Stockholm syndrome).  The fear Enmark felt towards the police was irrational, Bejerot explained, caused by the emotional or sexual attachment she had with her captors.  Bejerot’s snap diagnosis suited the Swedish media; they were suspicious of Enmark, who ‘did not appear as traumatized as she ought to be.’ &amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;At best,this syndrome was described based on one situation, not scientific research.</text></comment>
<story><title>Cities with their own psychological disorders</title><url>https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/cities-with-psychological-syndromes-stockholm</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>meigwilym</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m no expert, but wasn&amp;#x27;t Stockholm Syndrome debunked?&lt;p&gt;My understanding is that the response to the hostage taking was so incompetent that the hostages trusted the kidnappers more than the police. One of them was expected to &amp;quot;die at her post&amp;quot; by a bank executive. She refused to testify against them for these reasons rather than any sympathy to their cause.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zgluck</author><text>&lt;i&gt;One of them was expected to &amp;quot;die at her post&amp;quot; by a bank executive.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;I wasn&amp;#x27;t a bank executive, it was the the social democratic prime minister Olof Palme.&lt;p&gt;During a phone call he asked one of the hostages: &amp;quot;wouldn′t it be nice to die at your post?&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;sverigesradio.se&amp;#x2F;artikel&amp;#x2F;591659&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;sverigesradio.se&amp;#x2F;artikel&amp;#x2F;591659&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;(&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;blogs.loc.gov&amp;#x2F;law&amp;#x2F;2021&amp;#x2F;03&amp;#x2F;the-murder-of-swedish-prime-minister-olof-palme&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;blogs.loc.gov&amp;#x2F;law&amp;#x2F;2021&amp;#x2F;03&amp;#x2F;the-murder-of-swedish-prim...&lt;/a&gt;)</text></comment>