Summary: Andy wonders how many people on training courses end up with something like Stockholm syndrome, which he explains using the original Stockholm bank hostage case. He describes how participants who raise doubts or cost concerns may be told they have limiting beliefs, and notes that claims are often passed on without anyone asking for evidence. He ends by asking why viewers leave it to others to act.
Tag: stockholm syndrome
Author: Andrew T. Austin
Andrew T. Austin is a therapist, trainer and author. He qualified as a registered general nurse in 1992, with clinical experience that included accident and emergency (A&E) and neurosurgery, and went on to train in Ericksonian hypnotherapy, NLP (to trainer level) and Provocative Therapy with Frank Farrelly. He developed Integral Eye Movement Therapy Technique (IEMT), formalised as a training in 2008, and Metaphors of Movement. Both are included in The SAGE Encyclopedia of Theory in Counseling and Psychotherapy (2015). He is the author of The Rainbow Machine: Tales from a Neurolinguist's Journal, prefaced and edited by Steve Andreas and published by Real People Press.