Stockholm Syndrome Definition
noun
A psychological condition in which a person taken hostage sympathizes with or becomes emotionally involved with his or her captors.
Webster's New World
Origin of Stockholm Syndrome
Named after the Norrmalmstorg robbery of Kreditbanken at Norrmalmstorg, Stockholm, Sweden in which the bank robbers held bank employees hostage from August 23 to August 28, 1973. Coined by criminologist and psychiatrist Nils Bejerot.
From Wiktionary
After Stockholm where a hostage in a 1973 bank robbery became romantically attached to one of her captors
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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