The pair of therapists — one Swedish, one Canadian, and both sporting shocks of white hair — met for the first time several years ago in a Stockholm café, at the suggestion of a mutual acquaintance.

It's a common term these days, deployed to describe the bond that victims of kidnappings or hostage situations sometimes develop with their captors: “Stockholm syndrome.” And it got its name 50 years ...

Olofsson helped hold four people hostage during a high-profile bank robbery in Sweden in 1973 Clark Olofsson, one of the criminals who inspired the ‘Stockholm syndrome’ phrase, died on June 24, 2025, ...

Psychiatrists use the term Stockholm syndrome to describe a set of psychological characteristics first observed in people taken hostage during a 1973 bank robbery in Stockholm. In that incident, two ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. STOCKHOLM (AP) — It’s a common term these ...