Is the Stockholm Syndrome a Defense Strategy?

It's a weird term though that it came out of a very specific situation. This random Swedish dude made it seem like it was a generalizable phenomenon. Then we applied it to a completely different situation in which somebody was being deliberately coerced into having political views, which is not what the Stockholm original situation was. And then it's now this term that we use to talk about people who are being abused on a domestic violence level and over a much longer term. So it seems like we're applying the Stockholm syndrome label to three completely different situations.