The Stockholm Syndrome was dramatically depicted in the 1975 Bank robbery movie, Dog Day

Afternoon, starring Al Pacino and based on a true story. Despite being held hostage

at gunpoint, some of the bank employees didn't just sympathize with the robbers, they became

what you'd have to describe as friends. But of course, this was just a Hollywood movie.

Like the same thing happened in real life. The truth behind the Stockholm Syndrome is coming

up today on Skeptoid.

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You're listening to Skeptoid. I'm Brian Dunning from Skeptoid.com. How real is the Stockholm

Syndrome? The image of Aris patty herst with her automatic rifle slung over her shoulder during

a 1974 Bank robbery is synonymous with any mention of the Stockholm Syndrome described as

the tendency for abductees to sympathize with and even join their abductors. 30 years later,

when kidnapping victim Elizabeth Smart was found to have taken no action to escape her kidnappers

after nine months of opportunities, the term was flaunted by the news again. But in psychological

circles, the Stockholm Syndrome is not necessarily taken for granted quite so easily. Is the Stockholm

Syndrome a real psychological phenomenon? Or is it just a media buzzword, an attention-grabbing

label that can be slapped onto every abduction case where the victim could have escaped but

didn't? It was 1973 when furloughed prisoner Yana Olsen attempted to rob the normalum

storega credit bank in Stockholm, Sweden. A police standoff ensued during which Olsen took

four young women hostage who worked at the bank. He demanded his friend Clark Olofsen be

brought there from prison to help him, which police granted. Olofsen joined Olsen and the

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