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- March 11, 2022

Stockholm Syndrome

It is a temporary psychological disorder that, for example if the abducted person finds something good in the abductor's actions, he or she will fall in love with him or her. In these cases, the person wouldn't know whether what is happening at that moment is good or bad.

Many psychologists and medical professionals consider Stockholm syndrome to be a coping mechanism, or a way that helps victims deal with the trauma of a frightening situation. In fact, the history of the syndrome may help explain what it is.

It was not until 1973 that this response to captivity or abuse was given a name.

On this date two men held four people hostage for six days after a bank robbery in Stockholm, Sweden. After the hostages were released, they refused to testify against their captors and even began raising money for their defense.

HIGH PROFILE CASE:

Patty Hearst. Perhaps most famously, the granddaughter of businessman and newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst was kidnapped in 1974 by the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA). During her captivity, she renounced her family, adopted a new name and even joined the SLA to rob banks. Hearst was later arrested, and used Stockholm syndrome as a defense in her trial. That defense did not work, and she was sentenced to 35 years in prison.

Oneirophrenia

Is a state of hallucination, of dreaming, caused by different processes. If you have it you will have a feeling of unreality, which in its extreme form can cause delusions and hallucinations. If you try to remedy it, you would see a doctor and most likely you will be injected with glucose to return your blood glucose level to normal.

Oneirophrenia was studied in the fifties by the neurologist and psychiatrist Ladislas J. Meduna (1896-1964), known as the discoverer of one of the forms of electroshock treatment, using the drug metrazol. Psychoanalysts, such as Claudio Naranjo, in the sixties have described the importance of ibogaine-induced oneirophrenia, to induce and freely manipulate fantasies and daydreams in patients under treatment.