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El Síndrome de Estocolmo: una Revisión Sistemática

2018; Colegio Oficial de Psicólogos de Madrid; Volume: 29; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.5093/clysa2018a12

2174-0550

Lucía Ester Rizo Martínez,

Resilience and Mental Health

The Stockholm syndrome is a term used to describe a paradoxical psychological experience in which an affective bond between hostages and their captors is developed. However, currently there is no unification of criteria with respect to its diagnosis and characteristics and even its denomination of "syndrome". The objective of the present study was to review and summarize the existing international literature of the Stockholm syndrome. Databases (PUBMED, Google Scholar, Academic Onefile, and EBSCO) were systematically searched. After analyzing the 23 articles selected, it could be considered that the expansion of the term to different cases or groups is an important indicator that it is a universal instinctive response of survival, although the lack of empirical studies could lead to the conclusion that many of the characteristics of the term are due to an information bias.