Stockholm Syndrome - A Way to Explain Domestic Violence

Psychoanalytic idea was that when people are overwhelmed by fear, they unconsciously regress to an infantile state and begin to identify with their aggressor. Related ideas can be found in some forms of Marxist thought where the opporilitariat said to one day rise up and confront their oppressors. During the 1990s, Stockholm Syndrome becomes a way to explain not just hostages or the proletariat, but why victims of domestic violence can't or won't leave their abusers. Some trauma experts say it's because the victim, typically a woman, has a sense of dependency on her partner. That's not a syndrome. In an intimate relationship, which is entirely different, even to a hostage situation with