Stockholm syndrome

:For the band, see Stockholm Syndrome (band).

Famous cases of the hostages with the syndrome

• Patty Hearst, who after having been a hostage of the Symbionese Liberation Army in the mid-1970s, joined the group in a bank robbery. Hearst did not recover for several months after she was arrested with some of her captors. She was convicted and imprisoned for her actions in the robbery, though her sentence was commuted by President Jimmy Carter in 1979, and she received a Presidential pardon from Bill Clinton in January 2001.
• Elizabeth Smart, a girl kidnapped and sexually abused by a mentally ill man who treated her as his wife in 2002-2003; Smart spent many months living on the streets of Salt Lake City, Utah, physically unrestrained.
• Japanese abducted to North Korea during the late 1970's and early 1980's. After five of them were allowed to return to Japan in October 2002, they exhibited behavior of submission to the North Korean regime and, given that the regime would not allow their North Korean-born children to join them in Japan right away, attempted to go back there to join them; however, their Japanese families, seeing this as symptoms of brainwashing, restrained them, and eventually the former abductees shed their North Korean identities symbolically by shedding the pins with pictures of previous dictator Kim Il Sung on them during a press conference and denouncing the North Korean regime as a "criminal state" in subsequent interviews, which eventually led to the release of their children in 2004.

According to the FBI's Hostage/Barricade System database, 92 percent (PDF) of the victims of such incidents reportedly showed no aspect of the Stockholm syndrome.

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

Other famous cases of the hostages with the syndrome include various airplane hostages and kidnapped people.

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~