Stockholm syndrome is incorrectly written, and should be written as "Stockholm syndrome" being its meaning: Psychic response of complicity that some victims of abuse or kidnapping experience towards the cause of them, perhaps as a mechanism of unconscious self-defense against an attack by the forces of the order. Coined this name psychiatrist Nils Bejerot in 1973, Advisor of the Swedish police in the assault of the banco de Crédito of Stockholm on 23 August that year, observing the reactions of the hostages in captivity.