ShortHand: Is Stockholm Syndrome Real?
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🗓️ 30 August 2022
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Little did he know, that this party would turn into a six-day long stand-off with police and be the birth of the now well-known term Stockholm Syndrome.
But did you know that despite being cited in numerous media reports of hostage situations and abuse cases, Stockholm Syndrome has never been included in the DSM? Therefore it’s not recognised as an official psychological condition…
So, what is Stockholm Syndrome exactly, and does it even exist?
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| 0:00.0 | Hello! Hello! And welcome to whatever episode this is over at Andertraultland. We don't know. |
| 0:20.7 | We don't know anymore. We don't know how to count, but that doesn't matter because you're |
| 0:23.6 | not here for the maths. Sometimes I sneak in. You're here for us to talk about weird and |
| 0:28.7 | wonderful things. Exactly. And we have actually covered this one on retarded as a part of another |
| 0:34.9 | episode for the life of me and I cannot remember what it is. I believe it was Kaleen Stan. I don't |
| 0:40.2 | know if it was, I feel like it was more recent than that. I definitely remember talking about |
| 0:44.4 | Stockholm syndrome in that episode. Gosh, you've got a good memory. It does. I don't remember anything |
| 0:49.6 | five years ago. It doesn't matter where we talked about it before because we definitely haven't |
| 0:54.4 | talked about Stockholm syndrome in this much detail. No, exactly. I think it's one of those things |
| 0:58.6 | that everyone knows what it means in context, but very few people really understand the story of |
| 1:03.2 | where it came from. But once 20 minutes has passed, my friend, you will not be one of those ideas. |
| 1:08.1 | You will know. No, you will not. So let's continue. Let's begin, shall I say, the journey of education, |
| 1:13.6 | the journey of discovery. So, like Hannah said, we've all heard of the term Stockholm syndrome. |
| 1:19.5 | You may already even know that Stockholm syndrome is the phenomenon in which people develop a kind of |
| 1:24.4 | psychological bond with their captors or abusers. What you may not know is that despite being sighted |
| 1:31.4 | in numerous media reports of hostage situations and abuse cases, and of course, in true crime |
| 1:36.4 | podcasts up and down the world, Stockholm syndrome has never been included in the DSM. That's |
| 1:43.5 | extremely interesting. I did not know that nor did I. So there you go. The learning begins. |
| 1:49.0 | We're all on a journey together. Let aboard the magic school bus. Yes, please. We're going into a |
| 1:53.4 | vein. Keep your hands and your feet to yourself and inside the bus all times. Do you have your exit |
| 1:58.4 | body? No. No. No. So because it's never been in the DSM, Stockholm syndrome is not recognised as an |
| 2:07.9 | official psychological condition, nor is there a standard treatment for it. Why I might hear you |
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