This chapter discusses a real-life bank robbery in Stockholm, Sweden, where a man disguised and armed with a machine gun takes four bank employees hostage for six days, leading to the development of Stockholm Syndrome.
A bank heist, a hostage drama and a dubious diagnosis.
It's 50 years since the robbery that inspired the term 'Stockholm Syndrome', and today we explore the origins of the proposed condition - and probe the many problems with that label.