nishabalkrishna

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Can we fall in love with enemy?

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lindilou

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I believe you are inquiring about Stockholm Syndrome

Definition

Stockholm syndrome refers to a group of psychological symptoms that occur in some persons in a captive or hostage situation. It has received considerable media publicity in recent years because it has been used to explain the behavior of such well-known kidnapping victims as Patty Hearst (1974) and Elizabeth Smart (2002). The term takes its name from a bank robbery in Stockholm, Sweden, in August 1973. The robber took four employees of the bank (three women and one man) into the vault with him and kept them hostage for 131 hours. After the employees were finally released, they appeared to have formed a paradoxical emotional bond with their captor; they told reporters that they saw the police as their enemy rather than the bank robber, and that they had positive feelings toward the criminal. The syndrome was first named by Nils Bejerot (1921–1988), a medical professor who specialized in addiction research and served as a psychiatric consultant to the Swedish police during the standoff at the bank. Stockholm syndrome is also known as Survival Identification Syndrome.

Description

Stockholm syndrome is considered a complex reaction to a frightening situation, and experts do not agree completely on all of its characteristic features or on the factors that make some people more susceptible than others to developing it. One reason for the disagreement is that it would be unethical to test theories about the syndrome by experimenting on human beings. The data for understanding the syndrome are derived from actual hostage situations since 1973 that differ considerably from one another in terms of location, number of people involved, and time frame. Another source of disagreement concerns the extent to which the syndrome can be used to explain other historical phenomena or more commonplace types of abusive relationships. Many researchers believe that Stockholm syndrome helps to explain certain behaviors of survivors of World War II concentration camps; members of religious cults; battered wives; incest survivors; and physically or emotionally abused children as well as persons taken hostage by criminals or terrorists.

Most experts, however, agree that Stockholm syndrome has three central characteristics:

The hostages have negative feelings about the police or other authorities.

The hostages have positive feelings toward their captor(s).

The captors develop positive feelings toward the hostages.

Causes & symptoms..... read more here >>>> http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Stockholm+syndrome

10 years ago. Rating: 12
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jhharlan

Thanks, Lindi. I always wanted to know more about this……….

commented 10 years ago

pythonlover

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Love is blind. You can't choose who you fall in love with. So yes, you can fall in love with your enemy.

10 years ago. Rating: 9
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Ducky

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What on earth are you asking? Would you like to be more specific so we can give you a credible answer of some kind?

10 years ago. Rating: 8
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wonderer

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I've heard it said, "Keep your friends close, but keep your enemy closer"...(I think you might be in for some drama,tho, if you do.) Prepare yourself if that's what you plan on doing.

10 years ago. Rating: 8
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Bob/PKB

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While I doubt anyone would conscientiously and knowingly find him/herself in a love relationship with an "enemy" (Defined per individual), it certainly could happen. Like pythonlover says, LOVE IS BLIND (and often stupid).

10 years ago. Rating: 7
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clu

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Sure we can! Who doesn't love the underdog or enemy?? If it makes you feel bigger and better-- Go ahead-- FALLL in LOVE???

10 years ago. Rating: 7
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MILLIE333

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Stockholm`s Syndrome an example of where kidnapped people form a strong bond with their captors and can`t bring themselves to leave/escape often when they have many chances to do so...some would say they have some strange underlying feelings of "Love" for the person who is really their enemy there!..Just my view..well..and Specialist Dr`s views too?..

10 years ago. Rating: 5
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JPatrice

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Its possible !

10 years ago. Rating: 5
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nice, nice

really u think so! i don't! u don't know wat might happen at the end! u don't know if u was being used no one knows!

commented 10 years ago

mycatsmom

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There's been plenty of wars where an American soldier came home with a German bride, or a Korean girl, or a Vietnamese girlfriend, or wife. I've known some of those " German war brides", as my mother called it; and their marriages have lasted for a long time.

10 years ago. Rating: 3
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tabber

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Sure. Love is a very complex emotion. Situations involved often play a part in who and what we love at any given time in our lives.

10 years ago. Rating: 3
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itsmee

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I have heard the term but I didn't know what it meant. That's a very strange disorder indeed. I wonder if Aerial Castro's girls fell victim to this in some degree?