What Is Stockholm Syndrome?

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6. Patty Hearst

In Berkeley, California, 1974, Patty Hearst was kidnapped from her apartment by a group known as the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA). The apparent motive behind the kidnapping was to pressure her family, who had political influence, into releasing two SLA members.

During her captivity, Hearst was pressured into working with the group and, two months after her kidnapping, an audio tape was released with Hearst stating she had adopted the name Tania and had joined the SLA. She was caught on surveillance video helping the SLA to rob a bank for which she was eventually arrested and tried. She was sentenced to 35 years, which was reduced, and she was eventually pardoned by President Bill Clinton.

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