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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.

We Got This Covered · Oct 7, 2025

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 · Aug 25, 2023

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 · Aug 25, 2023