A small kindness from the abductor to the victim. A real or perceived threat to one’s physical or psychological survival and the belief that the abductor may be dangerous. Stockholm syndrome is a condition that occurs when hostages develop an emotional or psychological connection to the people who held them in captivity. There are four basic situations or conditions that cause the development of Stockholm syndrome: 1. After a certain interval of time, some victims come to pity or sympathize with their captives. The victims start to rewrite their perception towards them into something positive. Why does this happen? Stockholm syndrome can be taken as a mechanism to cope with the trauma of the terrifying situation. When immersed in an unfamiliar, frightening environment where there is no assurance of your life, a small act of kindness from the abuser may lead the victim to think and develop a positive relation towards the abductor. But in some, victims reconcile with the goal of the captor’s humanity and may even develop resentment towards anyone who might try to help them escape. This usually happens because the victim often feels threatened by their captor but on the other hand in order to survive they are reliant on them. Stockholm syndrome is commonly associated with kidnapping or keeping a hostage but in today’s society it has taken different forms like abusive relationship and child abuse. The case of Swedish bank robbery can be taken as an example, on August 23, 1973, an escaped convict crossed the streets of Sweden’s capital city and infiltrated the Sveriges Kreditbanken. Stockholm syndrome is paradoxical because the sympathetic sentiments that captives feel towards their captors are the opposite of the fear and disdain which an onlooker might feel towards the captors. After wounding a policeman, the robber took four bank employees as hostages.
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