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What is the 'stockholm syndrome'?

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The online Merriam-Webster dictionary defines it as "the psychological tendency of a hostage to bond with, identify with, or sympathize with his or her captor." Stockholm syndrome is a defense mechanismus in wich people when they are harmed or tortured by someone think that that had to happen. In that case they sympathize with their tormentors or captors. Usualy in that case they defend the tormentors when police aresst them, or try to understand them like,, He probably had a bad childhood and that why he is tormenting me now''. Usualy people with this syndrome are very loial to their tormentors. The mechanismus of this syndrome is complicated...

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