Survivors of hostage-taking situations or of torture can exhibit similar effects, attempting to protect their tormentors from legal consequences, insisting that the hostage takers actually had their best interests at heart or even describing them as kind and caring individuals—a phenomenon known as the Stockholm syndrome.
Apparently the author doesn’t realized this is a completely debunked “syndrome” that was invented to discredit a woman who criticized her “rescuers” methods as endangering herself and her fellow hostages.
