Stockholm syndrome is not love, though it can exist alongside deep emotional attachment, and the two may feel similar. If you are in an abusive relationship, for instance, it can be extremely difficult to disentangle this survival mechanism from genuine love. Unlike healthy relationships, however,...
Similar incidents have been recorded where the captives were strangely attracted to the captors and deliberately wanted to stay with them. Stockholm Syndrome is not recognized as a definite psychological condition or disorder, but rather an array of symptoms that hostages undergo in an abduction or ...
But I was also spared a lot of things - I did not start smoking or drinking and I did not hang out in bad company." By most experts' accounts, Kampusch is in a traumatized state and appears to be suffering from Stockholm syndrome. People suffering from Stockholm syndrome come to ...
In a concluding part the authors discuss the importance of secular changes in diagnostic concepts, “a diagnostic substitution” and that similar trends may also be relevant for other developmental disorders, including learning disability/mental retardation and attention-deficit–hyperactivity disorder (ADHD...
(2006). Health-related quality of life in parents of school-age children with Asperger syndrome or high-functioning autism. Health and Quality of Life Out- comes, 4, 1. American Psychiatric Association. (1994). Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders 4th-ed. (DSM-IV). ...
Brain dynamics and asymmetries in the functional characterization of organic disorders in psychoses were explored. Nine medicated schizophrenic patients (general score on the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale=41) and 12 male volunteers were studied while performing a classical P300 paradigm (standard to...
After a sensitivity analysis, in which the cohort was restricted to those without pain or pain up to 2 days in the last 6 months, the results were similar, which is that the association between diabetes and frequent BNSP, and the one between hyperlipidaemia and frequent BNSP was preserved ...
Similar responses were exhibited by the hostages held at the Japanese embassy in Peru in 1996–97. Psychologists who have studied the syndrome believe that the bond is initially created when a captor threatens a captive’s life, deliberates, and then chooses not to kill the captive. The ...
Similar responses were exhibited by the hostages held at the Japanese embassy in Peru in 1996–97. Psychologists who have studied the syndrome believe that the bond is initially created when a captor threatens a captive’s life, deliberates, and then chooses not to kill the captive. The ...