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This question asks us how a psychoanalyst will explain stockholm syndrome and specifically what defense mechanism will they cite.
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Well, with stockholm syndrome, we see this dependency and growing relationship with the captor and the captive.
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So the person that is going to be kidnapped will form a bond with the kidnapper and will actually have.
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Have what they see as a positive relationship with them.
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They won't want to leave.
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So the psychoanalyst would find that the reaction formation, defense mechanism, will be responsible for this.
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And we find that the reaction formation is characterized by this conversion of unwanted negative feelings into the polar opposite.
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Any negative feelings are going to be converted and switched around to become positive feelings.
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So let's say fear will be completely converted to the polar opposite...