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an493798@anon.penet.fi wrote:

>It even has a name:

>These women have a medical title and explication:

>	 "Stockholm Syndrome." This is a situation in which those who are
>			intimidated, controlled, or made to suffer, begin 
>			to love, 	admire, and even sometimes sexually
>			desire their ontrollers or captors. 


There seems to be, as well, a connection with the experience of
violence in childhood.  It seems that children who are raised in
violent households tend to a much greater extent than normal to either
attatch themselves to violent individuals, become violent individuals,
or both (depending on context).  Since children cannot allow
themselves to believe that they are not loved (=death), whatever they
are getting, for good or ill, is necessarily love.  In this kind of
logic even the most violent abuse is love.  When these kids grow up,
lacking better models, the same logic applies.  Which is why 99% of
battered women stay with or return to or recreate relationships with
their perpetrators: take away the violence and you take away their
love, and they'll kill you for it.  this remains true even if they
*know* better, because the principle has been ingrained at a
pre-logical level.  This is a pattern that I have seen in many
permutations wherever I have gone.  Tragic.