Helsinki syndrome

English Alternative forms en Helsinki Syndrome Etymology Probably due to the 1988 film Die Hard in which an ignorant TV expert calls Stockholm syndrome "Helsinki syndrome": en 1988 Jeb Stuart (screenplay) Die Hard Gail Wallens (a news anchor, live on air): ...author of "Hostage/Terrorist, Terrorist/Hostage, a Study in Duality." Dr. Hasseldorf, what can we expect in the next few hours?Dr. Hasseldorf: Well, Gail, by this time the hostages should be going through the early stages of the Helsinki Syndrome.Harvey Johnson (Gail's co-anchor): As in Helsinki, Sweden?[a crew member facepalms] Noun - en proscribed Stockholm syndrome. en 1991 Hide and Seek William Carney 203 "It's called Helsinki Syndrome.” Dr. Pantu said to the Doctor over the telephone. “The kidnapped, or hostages, begin to identify with their captors." en 1993 Window on Mankind: Evolution and Human Behaviour John Sword 78 In the same field as brain washing but acting with almost immediate effect is a response now called the “Helsinki Syndrome" after an event that occurred in that city. Bank robbers took captive some bank staff after a robbery went wrong. en 1995 A Stranger in the Family Steven Naifeh; Gregory White Smith 289 Danny claimed he fell in love with Jeannie, but what seemed to Storms more likely was that she had developed some kind of Patti Hearst-like, Helsinki-syndrome, teenage crush on him. en 1997 Night of the Jaguar Don Pendleton 329 It's the Helsinki syndrome, Striker. We've encountered it before in the SAS. When hostages are totally dependent on their captors and do not know whether they'll live or die, they begin to identify with the terrorists. en 1999 Sex, Money and Murder in Daytona Beach Lee Butcher 342 Niles wanted to know if Dr. Davis was familiar with the Helsinki Syndrome, where hostages were brainwashed into thinking of their captives as friends. en 2001 Do I Look Like a Daddy to You?: Quinton Skinner 90 This is a variation of the Helsinki Syndrome, in which hostages come to sympathize with their captors. en 2001 Just the Way You Aren't Lynda Simmons 117 And had she even once mentioned that in reality Beauty was a hostage suffering from Helsinki syndrome? en 2007 My Voice Betrays Me Vanda Juknaitė; Bernard Ivan Tamas; Laima Srouginis xix I've read about the Helsinki syndrome, when the victim becomes attached to his or her tormentor.