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Where do psychology students source their information from?
I'm writing something at the moment and I need to do my research into to Stockholm Syndrome, I've never studied psychology so I'm a bit naive about where to start. I wondered if anyone knew of any online archives or any resources I could use to do my research. It doesn't have to be online, books and/or text books would also help.
I don't quite know what I'm looking for but maybe some documentation of a real experience or also some of the psychology behind it.
Thank you xx
And by "writing something" I mean creative writing not academic. God forbid.
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- GreywolfLv 76 years agoFavorite Answer
Stockholm Syndrome is totally fictitious, made up by the police psychiatrist Nils Bejerot as a cover-up for the Stockholm Police. The hostages in the Norrmalmstorg drama told the press they didn't want want the police to assault the vault. The hostages believed the police to be incompetent and would get them all killed. In other words, the hostages did not have a "syndrome", they were being totally rational. Of course this was embarrassing for the police, hence the cover-up, and the invention of a new "syndrome".
Source(s): I was there living in Stockholm at the time, fluent in Swedish and in touch with what was going on
