We witness multiple instances of Rapunzel grappling with her Stockholm Syndrome throughout her experience, including the conflicting emotions she vocalizes after first escaping, and even after she discovers how smart and strong she can be from her and Flynn's misadventures.
Quasimodo and Rapunzel sympathize with their captors and even believe their captors are protecting them and treating them with kindness. However, both captors are merely using and manipulating their victims for their own selfish purposes. Belle does not sympathize with the Beast when she is treated poorly.
Gothel is the main antagonist in Tangled. She kidnapped baby Rapunzel to get the magical power of Rapunzel's golden hair. Its magic can make people young but when the hair is cut, it will lose its power. So instead, she had to kidnap baby Rapunzel to make herself young.
Rapunzel begins to hallucinate her family and friends back in Corona and soon shares the idol with the rest of the group. However, everyone starts to become obsessive over the idol, desperately wanting it for themselves.
What is Stockholm syndrome? Stockholm syndrome describes the psychological condition of a victim who identifies with and empathizes with their captor or abuser and their goals. Stockholm syndrome is rare; according to one FBI study, the condition occurs in about 8 percent of hostage victims.
It has also been argued that Harley has Stockholm Syndrome wherein victims start bonding with their captors but again, Harley fell in love with Joker at the asylum and then helped him break out, there was no hostage situation. So, it is clear that Harley was suffering from Histrionic personality disorder.
An inversion of Stockholm syndrome, termed Lima syndrome, has been proposed, in which abductors develop sympathy for their hostages. An abductor may also have second thoughts or experience empathy towards their victims.
Rapunzel syndrome is an extremely rare condition associated with trichophagia (hair eating disorder) secondary to a psychiatric illness called trichotillomania (hair-pulling behaviour). It is most commonly seen in children and adolescents. Untreated cases can lead to a number of complications.
How Does Rapunzel Syndrome Happen? Trichophagia is a condition in which you repeatedly eat hair. It's often associated with trichotillomania, or the urge to pull out hair from the scalp.
Rapunzel: Rapunzel has signs of Stockholm Syndrome, a syndrome in which a hostage starts to feel sympathy for their captor. Mother Gothel has kept Rapunzel imprisoned to a tower for the majority of her life, and the two have become close.
Gothel is a once-beautiful but now aging narcissist who restores her youth and beauty as long as she is exposed to Rapunzel's healing long hair. Gothel is the archetype of the worst in deceptive, abusive, and even violent narcissism.
"I also think there is this thread of a kind of love that she does have for Rapunzel. It's not what she set out. But she does raise this child and it's the most intimate and certainly the most sustained relationship I think the woman has had in her 387 years or however old she might be.
Instead, Gothel exercises control over Rapunzel by playing on her fears. In her villain song “Mother Knows Best,” she sings “One way or another, something will go wrong I swear”; she belittles her, “You're looking a little chubby”; and then isolates her, “Skip the Drama, Stay with Mama, Mother Knows Best”.
A: Mother Gothel in Disney's Tangled. In this re-telling of the classic Rapunzel story, Mother Gothel is a narcissistic, emotionally abusive sorceress who abducts the infant Rapunzel from her crib. Mother Gothel raises Rapunzel as her own, isolating her in a hidden tower to control Rapunzel and her magical hair.
Rapunzel syndrome is extremely rare, with less than 64 cases reported since 1968. It is more common in young or adolescent females. Rapunzel syndrome is mainly seen in emotionally disturbed or mentally disturbed young females.
Snow White can be classified as having Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. The Princess meets all eight of the criteria listed in the DSM-V to diagnose PTSD (See Appendix A). First, she directly experiences a traumatic event relating to a near death experience (Criterion A1).
She asked her lover to bring her linen threads, so she could do a rope out of them and use it to escape. Rapunzel got pregnant, and Gothel noticed this. Either that, or Rapunzel once incautiously exclaimed that the witch was much heavier, thus longer to lift, than her prince.
Bell's pixiated growth (sic) is listed alongside her primary diagnosis, and her history of family and social stressors are emphasized in the “Other factors” section. This additional information is consistent with the primary mental health diagnoses describing Ms.
Rapunzel's hair also symbolizes imprisonment. Because she has such long hair, Gothel can hide her away in a place with only one entrance (the hair). The cutting of her hair does not immediately represent freedom; it represents near-certain death, as she is sent into a world she knows nothing about.
A person who experiences Stockholm syndrome comes to bond with the captor and may experience feelings of love, empathy, or a desire to protect the captor. The hostage may also often develop negative feelings toward the police or other parties who are attempting rescue.
