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Stockholm syndrome isn’t a diagnosis – so why do we still treat it as one?

Fifty-three years ago, convicted criminal Jan-Erik Olsson walked into a bank on Norrmalmstorg, a square in central Stockholm, pulled a submachine gun from under his jacket and fired at the ceiling. Concrete and glass rained down. “The party has just begun!” he shouted in a fake American accent, before taking…

The Conversation

Bill Skarsgård: 'I had no plan for when I would work again'

The Swedish star wasn’t sure if he was right for the part in Gus Van Sant’s hostage thriller Dead Man’s Wire. Turns out, it was the risk he needed to come back from his career break

Evening Standard

Bank robber with ‘machine gun’ takes hostages for 6 days. Their bond leads to the birth of a new psychological term

Six days in a vault and they fell for their kidnappers.

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Is Stockholm Syndrome even real? The bizarre story behind a problematic diagnosis

Few realize that ‘Stockholm Syndrome’ is a term that was foisted on a woman by a male psychiatrist who had never met her after a Swedish bank heist worthy of a movie. Fifty years after the hostage situation that gave the syndrome its name, Sheila Flynn reports on how minds…

The Independent UK

What is Stockholm syndrome? It all started with a bank robbery 50 years ago

This week marks 50 years since a failed bank robbery that gave rise to Stockholm syndrome, a term used to describe the bond that victims of kidnappings or hostage situations sometimes develop with their captors

The Independent UK

Is Stockholm Syndrome even real? The bizarre story behind a problematic diagnosis

The Independent UK

Infamous bank robbery that gave Stockholm Syndrome its name to be new Netflix series

The show explores the biography of one of the two hostage takers - Swedish gangster Clark Oloffson and the robbery gave rise to the term 'Stockholm Syndrome' after the group fell for their captors

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