The Hostage Seekers

Placing the Stockholm Syndrome in Perspective

n an August morning in 1973, an escaped convict took four bank employees their captors. Psychologists called this newly discovered phenomenon the Stockholm Syndrome.1 A coping mechanism also known as the Survival Identification Syndrome, the Common Sense Syndrome, or, simply, transference, the Stockholm Syndrome usually consists of three components that may occur separately or in combination wi...

A pilot study of naturally occurring high-probability request sequences in hostage negotiations.

In the current study, the audiotapes from three hostage-taking situations were analyzed. Hostage negotiator requests to the hostage taker were characterized as either high or low probability. The results suggested that hostage-taker compliance to a hostage negotiator's low-probability request was more likely when a series of complied-with high-probability requests preceded the low-probability r...

Military Psychiatry and Hostage Negotiation 271 INTRODUCTION TYPES OF HOSTAGE SITUATIONS Criminal Domestic Terrorist PRINCIPLES OF HOSTAGE NEGOTIATION THE NEGOTIATION MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONALS AND HOSTAGE NEGOTIATION

Comparison of Clinical Profile and Career Profile of Job Seekers and Waiting for Job Centers

The challenges of modern life and human nature encourage the need to earn a living and move toward materialism, in which direction jobs are the most important means of achieving this. Therefore, the purpose of the present study was to compare the clinical profile (aggression, anxiety, obsession, individual sensitivity, somatic complaints, psychosis, paranoid imagery, depression, and fear) and t...

Hostage Negotiation Consultant: Emerging Role for the Clinical Psychologist

Police departments across the nation are requesting the consultation of psychologists during hostage incidents. There is a growing body of literature on the psychological aspects of hostage situations and negotiation. I review the existing body of literature with respect to who takes hostages and why, selection of negotiators, the role of the clinical psychologist as a consultant, victims' resp...