Now I don’t put too much faith the supposed Stockholm Syndrome. Yet as Brian Masters writes, in the Daily Mail(UK) the case is simply “Beyond Reason [1]:”
The case of Shawn Hornbeck is, so far, utterly baffling.
Rescued by police from a four-year imprisonment in the house of a stranger, this normal, healthy, cheerful 15-year-old boy should be traumatised and stunted by his experience.
I think psychologists use the phrase Stockholm Syndrome to mean that they are baffled. As am I.