"Stockholm syndrome." In 1973, four Swedes held in a bank vault for six days during a robbery became attached to their captors, a phenomenon dubbed the Stockholm Syndrome. According to psychologists, the abused bond to their abusers as a means to endure violence.
The most notorious instance came when heiress Patty Hearst was kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army, and after some months, re-christened herself "Tanya" and joined their ranks. "Get down or I'll blow your [badword-badword] heads off," she shouted while robbing a San Francisco bank with fellow S.L.A. members in April, 1974.
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