A SHOCKING TRUE CRIME

What We Get Wrong About ‘Stockholm Syndrome’

Trauma survivors can be re-victimized by pop-culture myths about a failed bank heist 50 years ago this week

Janice Harayda
Lit Life
Published in
6 min readAug 26, 2023

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Ethan Hawke in “Stockholm”
Ethan Hawke as would-be bank robber Jan-Erik Olsson in “Stockholm” / Darius Films

A decade ago, I moved to a state where the politics can be so embarrassing, people wonder, “How can you live in a place like that?” In self-defense…

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Janice Harayda
Lit Life

Critic, novelist, award-winning journalist. Former book editor of the Plain Dealer and book columnist for Glamour. Words in NYT, WSJ, and other major media.