The Origins of Stockholm Syndrome

Would you protect the people sent to harm you?

Josie Klakström
Jan 4 · 7 min read

Most have heard of Stockholm Syndrome. It’s a phrase bandied around and has even been used as song titles, but what is it and where did it begin?

Snipers and press photographers lined the roof via Time.com

On the 23rd of August 1973, Jan-Erik Olsson fired a submachine gun at the ceiling of Sveriges Kreditbanken and announced, “The party has just begun!”

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