[raducu]

What about occam's razor? I mean, setting aside the insinuations of woke individuals.

Does Stockholm syndrome exist?

No doubt in my mind that it exists from the Sabine Women to the Abduction at Shiloh and every ancient siege aftermath to the war brides of WW2, the evidence is overwhelming.

[ceejayoz]

> Sabine Women

May be entirely mythical, and certainly doesn't leave us with any useful evidence to evaluate from a psychotherapy standpoint.

> Abduction at Shiloh

OK, second pre-Christ example on the list, with only the Bible as evidence of its occurrence. Not super promising.

> war brides of WW2

I'm reasonably certain that didn't involve kidnapping at all.

[raducu]

> May be entirely mythical, and certainly doesn't leave us with any useful evidence to evaluate from a psychotherapy standpoint.

I know quite a bit about psychotherapy (Schema Therapy, CBT, DBT, Transactional Analysis) and I see very little use of such evolutionary explanations, even if correct to any form of therapy.

If Stockholm syndrome was real and if women were evolutionary inclined to physiologically respond to their captors sexual advances and later "infatuate" (so as not to suffer violence and that the children survive), how could that be useful in any way to psychotherapy or law or any other area of human life?

[ceejayoz]

What evolutionary explanation? What are you talking about?

The three examples you cited as evidence of Stockholm Syndrome are made up of two unverifiable cases from over two thousand years ago, and a third that isn't Stockholm Syndrome.