Stockholm Sindrome

In situations where hostages were isolated, tortured and lived in fear of being killed, they sometimes began to ide fy with their captors point of view. Those who studied this phenomenon dubbed it brain washing. In 19 73, three years before julio and candre torrez encountered tom brown, it became known as stockholm indrome after a bank robbery in swedenwhere hostages subsequently defended their captors. The term made headlines in the us when heiress padty hurst was trialed for her role in a bank robbery. Hurst had been abducted in 19 74 by a left wing organization and was held hostage by them for 19 months. While prosecutors claimed hurst had willingly