Motivation and emotion/Book/2025/Stockholm syndrome emotion
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What are the emotional aspects of Stockholm syndrome?
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Stockholm syndrome
editStockholm syndrome is complex adaptive response to traumatic and threatening situations
Definition:
- Origins: Norrmalmstorg robbery- Hyper link other cases i.e Patty Hearst,
- Differentiation from disorder (why?) - comment, prior to DSM V consideration of inclusion under other stress related condition
- Brief comment on need for language - title to change to reflect survival mechanism (discus later on)
What are the emotional aspect of Stockholm sydrome?
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Table 1.
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Terror (?) | Explanation |
Gratitude (?) | Explanation |
Sympathy or Empathy (?) | Explanation |
Fear (?) | Explanation |
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Psychological mechanisms
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Case study
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Contemporary Approaches (critque)
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Appeasement
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editFeminist/DV/FV - against use of term
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Conclusion
editSee also
edit- Trauma bonding (Wikipedia)
- Attachment theories (Wikipedia)
- Stockholm syndrome and motivation (Book Chapter, 2024)
Reference
editBailey, R., Dugard, J., Smith, S. F., & Porges, S. W. (2023). Appeasement: replacing Stockholm syndrome as a definition of a survival strategy. European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 14(1). https://doi.org/10.1080/20008066.2022.2161038
Cantor, C., & Price, J. (2007). Traumatic entrapment, appeasement and complex post-traumatic stress disorder: Evolutionary perspectives of hostage reactions, domestic abuse and the Stockholm syndrome. The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 41(5), 377–384. https://doi.org/10.1080/00048670701261178
Hammack, S. E., Cooper, M. A., & Lezak, K. R. (2012). Overlapping neurobiology of learned helplessness and conditioned defeat: Implications for PTSD and mood disorders. Neuropharmacology, 62(2), 565–575. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropharm.2011.02.024
Music, G. (2021). Resparking from flatness: new thoughts on shut-down states after trauma and neglect. Journal of Child Psychotherapy, 47(3), 357–375. https://doi.org/10.1080/0075417X.2021.2018482
Palker-Corell, A., & Marcus, D. K. (2004). Partner abuse, learned helplessness, and trauma symptoms. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 23(4), 445–462. https://doi.org/10.1521/jscp.23.4.445.40311
External links
edit- What is Stockholm syndrome (Youtube)
- Lifeline