In situations where the abduction is carried out on these delicate subjects (not well structured, not very solid personalities, such as especially those of children or adolescents), maybe in order to have “a slave or a slave girl”, the abductor tries to depersonalise the victim, through a sort of “brainwashing”, convincing him/her that none of his/her loved ones will care about him/her, and that only the jailer will take care of him/her and stay by his/her side. Very often Stockholm syndrome can be found in situations of violence against women, child abuse and survivors of concentration camps The victim suffering from Stockholm syndrome, during the mistreatment, has a positive feeling towards his or her aggressor, which can go as far as falling in love and total voluntary submission, thus establishing a sort of alliance and solidarity between victim and perpetrator. Yet, from a clinical psychology perspective, it would be interesting to try to investigate its causes, investigating the attachment styles and behavioural profiles of subjects who have experienced the state of victim-perpetrator identification, so as to allow mental health professionals to look with different eyes at similar situations identified by studies: members of sects, prison staff, abused women and, of course, hostages. Stockholm syndrome is not codified in any diagnostic manual, since, as highlighted above, it is not considered a disorder in its own right
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Stockholm syndrome is not considered to be a real disorder, but rather a set of emotional and behavioural activations peculiar to the functioning of some individuals subjected to particularly traumatic events, such as a kidnapping or a long series of physical and mental abuses. Stockholm syndrome consists in creating an emotional bond with the aggressor as a possible survival strategy in dangerous situations
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