You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast. Hi, and welcome back to Who Did What Now?

The History Podcast, that is not your history class.

With me, you're an overly enthusiastic host, Katie Charlwood, true crime enthusiast and reader of books.

Welcome, welcome one and all. Welcome back. How has everyone's week been? So as some of you may know,

I have an issue with Stockholm Syndrome.

So there's a few things that are sort of weirdly in popular culture and generally accepted as, you know, generally succeed,

somebody's chewing their words today, generally accepted within society, even though we have

not really much of a basis for it. It's kind of like, you know how we see patterns that aren't

there because we're designed, our brain is designed to see patterns. Babies are designed to

recognise human faces. Like that's, that's their thing. It just, yeah. So I think as well that correlation

does not equal causation is very much a part of this, but I feel strongly about this. I've, Stockholm

syndrome is a fallacy. It's not real and I believe that. Many of, many of the very real conditions.

They're often lumped in and swept under this Stockholm syndrome umbrella, even though they

either exist in their own right or do not necessarily belong there.

Like trauma bonding, IPV, PTSD, conditioning, so on and so forth.

You know, they're all different things, but for some reason they're consistently lumped onto

this umbrella.

Now, so I thought

what I talk about today is, I have already, yes, surprisingly enough, I've already talked about this

on TikTok, but I'm going to go into greater depth and tell you about the origins of Stockholm

syndrome, otherwise known as the, okay, forgive me Swedish people for my

terrible pronunciations, the Normalmstorg robbery. I'm so sorry. Oh my goodness, sources. So,

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