Resumen de Shaping the etiology of the Stockholm Syndrome: Hypothesis of the Induced Mental Model

Andrés Montero Gómez

• This paper presents an etiological hypothesis for the Stockholm Syndrome, a psychopathological entity which has never been distinguished like a corpus of clinical signs and symptoms with its own and different diagnostic category. The SIES will be described as an interpersonal bond of protection built between victim and aggressor, within a traumatic and stimuli isolated environment, through the induction of a mental model, of cognitive nature and contextual anchoring, that will be aimed at the victim's physiological and behavioural balance recovering and psychological integrity protection. The feature of the syndrome would be determined by a pattern of cognitive changes, its adaptive functionality, and its terminal course as a result of a psychological reactive process in the victims through several phases. According to our theoretic model, these phases would be: trigger, reorientation, coping and adaptation