HAP and Stockholm Syndrome
A psychological condition similar to Dr. Richard Gardner’s Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS) which has been recognized by many health care professionals in the world is a psychological state called Stockholm Syndrome. From Wikipedia, the internet encyclopaedia, Stockholm syndrome is
defined as the following:
The Stockholm syndrome is a psychological state in which the victims of a kidnapping, or persons detained against their free will - prisoners - develop a relationship with their captor(s). This solidarity can sometimes become a real complicity, with prisoners actually helping the captors to achieve their goals or to escape police.
The Stockholm Syndrome has been named this way after the famous bank robbery of Kreditbanken in Norrmalmstorg, Stockholm which lasted from August 23 to August 28, 1973. (See Norrmalmstorg robbery.) In this case, the victims kept on defending their captors even after their 6 days physical detention was over. They showed a restrained behaviour in the following legal procedures as well.
Famous cases regarded airplane hostages and kidnapped people, such as Patricia Hearst, who after having been a hostage of a politically engaged military organisation (the Symbionese Liberation Army, or SLA), joined it several months after she was freed. In a similar manner to victims of Stockholm Syndrome, HAP parents literally make their own child a prisoner or hostage to the HAP parent’s abuse though HAP. As a child victim unable to get free
and to have his/her wishes and preferences respected, the child may become aligned with his/her captors, who in the case of an HAP parent, is usually the custodial parent or persons who in most cases have the lawful authority to keep the child under their care and control. It is these people who the child finds most threatening and intimidating. In order to protect himself or herself and to minimize the chronic trauma, the child will hide their true feelings and begin to support the HAP person who is abusing them.
defined as the following:
The Stockholm syndrome is a psychological state in which the victims of a kidnapping, or persons detained against their free will - prisoners - develop a relationship with their captor(s). This solidarity can sometimes become a real complicity, with prisoners actually helping the captors to achieve their goals or to escape police.
The Stockholm Syndrome has been named this way after the famous bank robbery of Kreditbanken in Norrmalmstorg, Stockholm which lasted from August 23 to August 28, 1973. (See Norrmalmstorg robbery.) In this case, the victims kept on defending their captors even after their 6 days physical detention was over. They showed a restrained behaviour in the following legal procedures as well.
Famous cases regarded airplane hostages and kidnapped people, such as Patricia Hearst, who after having been a hostage of a politically engaged military organisation (the Symbionese Liberation Army, or SLA), joined it several months after she was freed. In a similar manner to victims of Stockholm Syndrome, HAP parents literally make their own child a prisoner or hostage to the HAP parent’s abuse though HAP. As a child victim unable to get free
and to have his/her wishes and preferences respected, the child may become aligned with his/her captors, who in the case of an HAP parent, is usually the custodial parent or persons who in most cases have the lawful authority to keep the child under their care and control. It is these people who the child finds most threatening and intimidating. In order to protect himself or herself and to minimize the chronic trauma, the child will hide their true feelings and begin to support the HAP person who is abusing them.