PETER PAN SYNDROME.
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As
you should know Fridays is Funday blog day were we talk anything and
everything and pretty much run with it. Today's blog is on Peter Pan
Syndrome.
Peter
Pan syndrome is an inability to grow up or to engage in behaviour
usually associated with adulthood. The term comes form the fictional
children's character peter pan, who never ages. While it is more
commonly attributed to men, it can affect women ad well.
-
Peter Pan syndrome Wiki
The
concept of the Peter Pan Syndrome gained
popularity of Dr. Dan Kiley (Psychoanalyst) in his book The Peter
Pan Syndrome; Men Who Have Never Grown Up (First
published in 1983). the book became an international
bestseller and led to a wave of copy-cat pop-psychology books. Dr
Kiley got the idea for “The Peter Pan Syndrome” from J. M.
Barrie's play, due to teenagers he treated when they were younger had
grown up unable to accept adult responsibility and growing up. This
trouble they experience continues on into adult hood.
People
who exhibit the characteristics associated with The Peter Pan
Syndrome are occasionally referred to as Peter Panners. Professor
Humbelina Robles Ortega, professor of Personality, Evaluation and
psychological treatment at Universidad de Granada, says the syndrome
is linked with overprotective parents and a large lack of life skills
which create anxiety in adulthood.
The
Syndrome is not currently considered a psychopathology, given the
World Health Organisation has not recognised it as a psychological
disorder. However, an increasingly large number of adults are
presenting emotionally immature behaviours in Western society. They
are unable to grow up and take on adult responsibilities, and even
dress up and enjoy themselves as teenagers when they are over 30
years old.
-
Science Daily
EXAMPLES
OF PETER PAN SYNDROME:
An
example of the syndrome was used Island, Aldous Huxley's 1962 novel.
In which one of the characters talks about male Dangerous
delinquents and power-loving trouble makers who are Peter
Pans. These types of males were Boys who can't read, won't
learn, don't get on with anyone and finally turn to the more violent
forms of delinquency. Aldous
Huxley uses Adolf Hitler as this phenomenons archetype.
A
Peter Pan if ever there was one. Hopeless at school. Incapable of
competing or co-operating. Envying all the normally successful
boys—and, because he envied, hating them and, to make himself feel
better, despising them as inferior beings. Then came the time for
puberty. But Adolf was sexually backward. Other boys made advancement
to girls, and the girls responded. Adolf was too shy, too uncertain
of his manhood. And all the time incapable of steady work, at home
only in the compensatory of other world of his fancy. There, at the
very least, he was Michelangelo, here unfortunately, he couldn't
draw. His only gifts were hatred, low cunning, a set of indefatigable
vocal cords and a talent for non-stop talking at deaths and heaven
knows how many billions of dollars-- that was the price the world had
to pay for little Adolf's retarded maturation.
-Aldous
Huxley, Island(Huxley Novel).
Another
rather prominent example was the Singer Michael Jackson who has been
known to say I am Peter Pan at heart. Jackson
named his property in California Neverland ranch (after the island
where Peter Pan lives) and filling it with numerous statues of
children a petting zoo, a movie theatre and a private theme park. He
said it was a way of reclaiming his childhood (having been a
performer since childhood with his family). On Jacksons Dime
thousands of schoolchildren both local and international visited over
the years in 2003 a teacher stated to USA Today Neverland
smells like cinnamon rolls, vanilla and candy and sounds like
children's laughter.
Dr
Kiley having coined 'the Peter Pan Syndrome' in 1983 also used the
term Wendy Syndrome to describe women who act like mothers with both
their partners and people close to Them. Professor Robles Ortega does
stress that Wendy is the woman behind Peter Pan. There must be
someone who deals with the things Peter Pan doesn't deal do in order
for Peter Pan to exist.
The
researcher form the UGR states that Wendy Makes every decision for
her partner and takes on the responsibilities for her partner, thus
justifying his unreliability. We can find Wendy people even within
the immediate family: the overprotecting mothers.
It
is declared that he biggest disadvantage of both disorders (Peter Pan
and Wendy syndromes) is that those who suffer from them don't feel as
thought hey are part of the problem and are not aware of it. Robles
points out that the only solution for this disease is the right
psychological treatment both for those specifically afflicted but
their families and partners too.
A
Longitudinal study ( a type of observational study that involves
repeated observations of the same variables, can be structured as
Longitudinal randomized experiments) having been published in 2010 of
Navajo adolescent mothers intimate partner relationships identified
several reoccurring themes; limited support, substance abuse domestic
violence and infidelity. One participant identified several men she'd
been with as having Peter Pan syndrome stating They don't want to
grow up, they drink to much, they don't work, and they're just not
emotionally available.
To
me Peter Pan syndrome is a very weird thing to me. It's obviously not
a recognised illness but I do feel that even though a lot of symptoms
can be attributed to other illnesses/syndromes and several disorders.
I do however believe that peter pan syndrome has some merit as an
illness all its own, especially for all of those who are said to have
it.
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