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What is Stockholm syndrome?

What is Stockholm syndrome? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A psychological condition in which a hostage emotionally bonds to his or her captor.
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In a kind of Stockholm syndrome, of identifying with the aggressor, they identified with the Union and disproportionately supported and fought and died in its wars.
Handily unbinding himself, Harold becomes their surrogate father: Stockholm syndrome in reverse.
She often asked jokingly if I had Stockholm syndrome when I spoke of this period of time, but I always denied it.
We were to be hostage to military kindness, stultified by Stockholm syndrome.
It can paralyse state administrations and frighten its victims into variations on the Stockholm syndrome.
So much for the Stockholm syndrome the GOP House leadership insists represents political reality.

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