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She eventually committed suicide and left the following note: “My four kidnappers are probably the only people on Earth who don't consider me an utter fool.

She then continued to visit her captors while they were in jail. She defended her kidnappers when she was released, explaining that they were only businessmen. Mary McElroy was abducted from her home in 1933 at age 25 by four men who held a gun to her, demanded her compliance, took her to an abandoned farmhouse, and chained her to a wall. The 2018 film Stockholm is loosely based on the events of the bank robbery.

There was nothing to do but get to know each other. They made us go on living together day after day, like goats, in that filth. Why didn't any of them attack me? They made it hard to kill. It was originally defined by psychiatrist Frank Ochberg to aid the management of hostage situations. He called it Norrmalmstorgssyndramat, meaning "the Norrmalmstorg syndrome" it later became known outside of Sweden as the Stockholm syndrome.

As the idea of brainwashing was not a new concept, Bejerot, speaking on "a news cast after the captives' release" instinctively reduced the hostages' reactions to a result of being brainwashed by their captors. Nils Bejerot, a Swedish criminologist and psychiatrist coined the term after the Stockholm police asked him for assistance with analyzing the victims' reactions to the 1973 bank robbery and their status as hostages. When the hostages were released, none of them would testify against either captor in court instead they began raising money for their defense. They held the hostages captive for six days (23–28 August) in one of the bank's vaults. He negotiated the release from prison of his friend Clark Olofsson to assist him. In 1973, Jan-Erik Olsson, a convict on parole, took four employees of the bank (three women and one man) hostage during a failed bank robbery in Kreditbanken, one of the largest banks in Stockholm, Sweden. Actions and attitudes similar to those suffering from Stockholm syndrome have also been found in victims of sexual abuse, human trafficking, terror, and political and religious oppression. It has also come to describe the reactions of some abuse victims beyond the context of kidnappings or hostage-taking. Stockholm syndrome is a "contested illness" due to doubt about the legitimacy of the condition.

A hostage's belief in the humanity of the captor because they cease to perceive the captor as a threat when the victim holds the same values as the aggressor.

A refusal by hostages to cooperate with police forces and other government authorities (unless the captors themselves happen to be members of police forces or government authorities).

No previous relationship between hostage and captor.

A hostage's development of positive feelings towards the captor.

There are four key components that characterize Stockholm syndrome: Stockholm syndrome is paradoxical because the sympathetic sentiments that captives feel towards their captors are the opposite of the fear and disdain which an onlooker might feel towards the captors. The hostages defended their captors after being released and would not agree to testify in court against them. This term was first used by the media in 1973 when four hostages were taken during a bank robbery in Stockholm, Sweden. For other uses, see Stockholm syndrome (disambiguation).