2014年05月22日
kidnapped from her Utah bedroom
Elizabeth Smart, who was kidnapped from her Utah bedroom at 14 and held captive for nine months, told The Associated Press that outsiders cannot know what victims are going through and should not question why the woman didn't escape sooner.
Smart, now 26, faced similar questions after her 2002 ordeal. She was repeatedly sexually assaulted and her captors moved her around Utah and California while threatening to kill her family if she tried to save herself.
"We don't know what these evil people are holding over them — whether it's their families' lives, their lives, whatever it is," Smart said. "We just don't know."
A prominent psychiatrist who helped define Stockholm syndrome, in which victims of abduction begin to sympathize with their captors, said determining why a victim resists possible escape even when an opportunity is available is not an exact science.
Dr. Frank Ochberg said the relationship can sometimes involve a "trauma bond," whether it's a physically abusive marriage or a kidnapping situation.
People in this situation become "infantilized, dominated. They end up being attached to the person who dominates them, much like a child," Ochberg said.
Small gifts of kindness from a captor, such as a bit of food or a trip to the bathroom, can create positive feelings within the victim gucci handbags sale.
"Someone takes away the fear, the isolation, and we have positive feelings," he said. "That could be the beginning of a trauma bond Tai O Cable Car."
In other cases, it can be more rational. "They know the risks of escape, and they don't want to take the risk," Ochberg said 娛樂預測.
Smart, now 26, faced similar questions after her 2002 ordeal. She was repeatedly sexually assaulted and her captors moved her around Utah and California while threatening to kill her family if she tried to save herself.
"We don't know what these evil people are holding over them — whether it's their families' lives, their lives, whatever it is," Smart said. "We just don't know."
A prominent psychiatrist who helped define Stockholm syndrome, in which victims of abduction begin to sympathize with their captors, said determining why a victim resists possible escape even when an opportunity is available is not an exact science.
Dr. Frank Ochberg said the relationship can sometimes involve a "trauma bond," whether it's a physically abusive marriage or a kidnapping situation.
People in this situation become "infantilized, dominated. They end up being attached to the person who dominates them, much like a child," Ochberg said.
Small gifts of kindness from a captor, such as a bit of food or a trip to the bathroom, can create positive feelings within the victim gucci handbags sale.
"Someone takes away the fear, the isolation, and we have positive feelings," he said. "That could be the beginning of a trauma bond Tai O Cable Car."
In other cases, it can be more rational. "They know the risks of escape, and they don't want to take the risk," Ochberg said 娛樂預測.
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