Stockholm Syndrome 50 years on: Is the condition real or was it invented to discredit women?

Swedish psychiatrists are now calling the infamous Stockholm Syndrome a "constructed concept" used to explain away the failures of the State.

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01:36 I think many can identify what happened in the Stockholm

01:40 Syndrome original situation, because this

01:42 is a phenomenon that can happen, for example,

01:45 in domestic violence or other kind of abusive situations.

01:50 And by understanding what really happens in the victim

01:55 during the Stockholm Syndrome situation,

01:57 it can help to remove some guilt and to remove some feelings

02:03 of shame in the victim.

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