According to the psychoanalytic view of the syndrome, this tendency to empathize or defend a captor, might be the result of employing the strategy evolved by newborn babies to form an emotional attachment to the nearest powerful adult in order to maximize the probability that this adult will enable—at the very least—the survival of the child, if not also prove to be a good parental figure. This syndrome is considered a prime example for the defense mechanism of identification.
But, don't identify, alright?
Too late.
