Patty Hearst Story (part 4)

From Patty Hearst to Tania: Shifting from one Personality Paradigm to Another

On February 4, 1974, Patty Hearst, then 19 years old, was kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) from the Berkeley, California, apartment she shared with her fiancé Steven Weed.



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It is possible too that Hearst developed Stockholm Syndrome -- a coping mechanism that abused people employ in order to remain alive and avoid more pain. However, Stockholm Syndrome could actually become maladaptive when the person, due to the length of time spent with the abuser, could no longer move on with her own life. In Patty’s case, she may have formed a sense of loyalty to her captors after having been exposed to them for sometime. Her own physical and emotional pains were too much that she dissociated from these and instead focused on her kidnappers. She saw that they were human beings and like her, they have had painful experiences in their lives that made them the way they were. Somewhere in their hearts, they were wounded. They also had feelings. Therefore, they were not bad through and through. (to be continued...)


Related stories:
Patty Hearst Story (part 1)
Patty Hearst Story (part 2)
Patty Hearst Story (part 3)
Patty Hearst Story (part 5)
Patty Hearst Story (part 6)
Patty Hearst Story (2nd to last part)
Patty Hearst Story (last part)



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