To determine once and for all if Belle’s love for the Beast is true as it can be or just pathological, Yahoo Movies asked Ochberg for his professional opinion.
"I think the case for Beauty and the Beast not being Stockholm syndrome is stronger than the case of it being Stockholm syndrome,” Ochberg told Yahoo Movies. He explained that Stockholm syndrome (named for a Swedish hostage situation in the 1970s) requires the captor to “terrorize, traumatize, and infantilize the captive,” and that the captive “goes through a period of feeling that they are going to die.” "