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You're Wrong About

Stockholm Syndrome

You're Wrong About

Sarah Marshall

True Crime, Society & Culture, News, Culture, Politics, History

4.623K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2018

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

It’s not a real thing! … OR IS IT? Sarah tells Mike about the convoluted history of a contested term. Digressions include James Bond, Charlie Manson and rat poison.

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0:00.0

No one has ever done that in real life, but it's like every sitcom has featured a subplot where somebody makes an actual written down pro and conless.

0:07.8

Yeah, and like Ross did that about Rachel on Friends.

0:11.0

And in retrospect, that relationship never should have happened.

0:13.8

Ha ha ha!

0:22.0

So welcome to Your Wrong About, the show where we set right what we once got wrong, still struggling.

0:28.4

I am Michael Hobbs, I'm a reporter for The Huffington Post.

0:31.0

And I'm Sarah Marshall and I'm a writer for the New Republic and Buzzfeed.

0:34.0

And today we're talking about Stockholm Syndrome.

0:37.0

Yeah.

0:37.8

So, Michael, what can you tell me about Stockholm Syndrome?

0:40.8

So, Stockholm Syndrome, I'm an expert on this because I've done no research whatsoever,

0:44.8

is the phenomenon by which you get kidnapped and you start to sympathize with your kidnappers

0:52.6

and you start to kind of take on their political beliefs as your own.

0:57.6

And so, in the 70s when there used to be lots of kidnappings,

1:03.8

there were some famous cases of people going rogue against the cops and teaming up with their own kidnappers.

1:13.4

And I have no idea why it's called Stockholm.

1:15.2

I have no idea what Stockholm has to do with anything.

1:17.4

When you think of the famous American cases, who do you think of?

1:21.0

Oh, Patty Hirst.

1:22.0

Yeah.

1:22.5

She's the poster girl for Stockholm Syndrome.

1:24.6

Yes.

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