In 1973 a group of Swedes held hostage in a vault during a bank robbery for six days grew attached to their captors.<br /><br />1-to develop or have compassion or sympathy for one's abductor<br />2-to grow attached to or grow to like a person, place, or thing one was forced to put up with<br /><br />Today it is used as psychological term to analyze mental patients who have been abused,tortured,kidnapped,etc. and many other situations<br /><br /><br />stockholm syndrome definition by Urban Dictionary