Stockholm Syndrome And The Strange Bank Robbery Behind It
Wikimedia CommonsThe Kreditbanken building, where Jan-Erik Olsson took his hostages. In 1973, Swedish criminologist and psychiatrist Nils Bejerot coined a most interesting psychiatric phenomenon. He called it Norrmalmstorgssyndromet, after Norrmalmstorg, the area of Stockholm where the phenomenon had originated. To people outside of Sweden, however, it became known as Stockholm syndrome.