Can someone explain thoroughly what a 'Peter Pan Complex' is? thx.?

Answer 1

Its when you are physically an adult, but mentally still immature and childish.

Answer 2

The Peter-Pan psychological type is one characterized by immaturity or certain sorts of psychological, social, and sexual problems. The type of personality in question, usually male, is immature and narcissistic. More completely, according to Kiley, the characteristics of a "Peter-Pan" include such attributes as irresponsibility, rebelliousness, anger, narcissism, dependency, manipulativeness, and the belief that he is beyond society's laws and norms. According to Kiley, "Peter Pan" is the adult little boy who, when in a relationship or in seeking a relationship, acts out a need for mothering

I found this on Wickipedia by doing a search. It's not listed in the Diagnosic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, so i guess it's just another label?

take care.

Answer 3

The Peter-Pan psychological type is one characterized by immaturity or certain sorts of psychological, social, and sexual problems. The person is immature and narcissistic. The characteristics of a "Peter-Pan" include such attributes as irresponsibility, rebelliousness, anger, narcissism, dependency, manipulativeness, and the belief that he is beyond society's laws and norms.

"Peter Pan" is the adult little boy who, when in a relationship or in seeking a relationship, acts out a need for mothering. It is useful to compare the Jungian archetype of Puer Aeternus, the eternal boy.

Referring to most of the outcomings and behavioural problems,one may link the Sydrome with Bipolar Disorder,aka the Manic-Depressive Illness.

Answer 4

The 'Peter Pan Complex' is a psychological condition belief that one will never, and must never, grow up.
characterised by immaturity or certain sorts of psychological, social, and sexual problems. The type of personality in question, usually male, is immature and narcissistic. include such attributes as irresponsibility, rebelliousness, anger, narcissism, dependency, manipulative's, and the belief that he is beyond society's laws and norms. "Peter Pan" is the adult little boy who, when in a relationship or in seeking a relationship, acts out a need for mothering.

Answer 5

There is a developmental stage humans pass through - it's, for most, late childhood early adolescence. This phase is characterized by endrogeny (un-defined male or female traits), still having childhood phantasies, feelings of omnipotence (like flying). This phase is generally followed by adolescence where increased demands are imposed by family/society to choose a life plan, be clearly either male or female, etc.
You can see why some would choose to stay in that earlier, "Peter Pan" place.

Answer 6

your question suggests that it is complicated but it is really quite simple. the causes may be different and more complex but the result is the person not wanting and subsequently refusing to grow up mentally or emotionally to match their physical age. yes just like in the movie.

see source for a list of specific behaviors associated with it

Answer 7

Puberty Gene Found
"Harry Potter" Mice Lack Puberty Gene, Don't Mature Sexually
By Daniel J. DeNoon
WebMD Medical NewsOct. 22, 2003 -- Harry Potter mice are more like Peter Pan than the boy wizard. Why? They won't grow up.


The mice won't mature sexually because they lack a crucial gene. Some humans who never hit puberty have mutant forms of the same gene. Dubbed Gpr54, the gene appears to be a key part of the mysterious machinery that turns children into adults.


The findings come from a collaboration of researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Harvard Medical School, Boston; the University of Cambridge, England; and Paradigm Therapeutics, Cambridge, England. They appear in the Oct. 23 issue of The New England Journal of Medicine.


"It looks like we have found a key genetic gatekeeper of puberty in mice and men," researcher William Crowley Jr., MD, director of the Harvardwide Reproductive Endocrine Sciences Center, says in a news release.


An Unusual Saudi Family

Researcher Stephanie Seminara, MD, of the MGH reproductive endocrine unit, was looking for something else. Her team was trying to find the cause of a rare disease called idiopathic hypogonadotropic hypogonadism or IHH. Patients with IHH don't have any anatomical abnormalities but they do not go through puberty spontaneously and require hormones to help them reach puberty at the normal age.


Her search took her to Saudi Arabia. There she found a family in which many members -- both male and female -- never underwent puberty. Painstaking genetic analysis identified a mutant form of Gpr54 in family members with IHH, but not in those without the disease.


As it turns out, people with IHH only rarely have this particular abnormality in the mutant Gpr54 gene, but researchers turned up an African American male with different mutations in the same gene. That man never hit puberty.


Harry Potter to the Rescue

All this might have remained an interesting but unsolved puzzle, until a private company in England -- Paradigm Therapeutics -- learned that Seminara's team was studying Gpr54.


Paradigm was looking for new drug targets by creating mice that lack genes whose function is not yet known. Genetically engineered mice lacking these so-called orphan genes are called orphan mice. The Paradigm team names each strain of these mice after famous orphans. The Harry Potter strain, as it happened, lacked Gpr54.


Gpr54 isn't the only factor in the complex chain of events that leads to puberty. But puberty can't happen without it. The Harry Potter mice were normal in every way -- except that they never became sexually mature.


"These findings define a new drug target with wide potential for therapeutic intervention in conditions such as hormonal-dependant cancers, abnormal puberty, and control of fertility," Paradigm researcher Samuel Aparicio, PhD, says in a news release.

Answer 8

Means ... the said person ,, DOes not want to grow up ,, no matter how old they are ,,,peter pan refused to grow up no matter what the cost ,, be it friendship or love

Answer 9

Judging by the story I would assume it's an "always want to stay young" attitude. Not being able to grow up mentally.

Answer 10

its wen you are afraid of getting older and you never want to grow up. most of the time ppl who have this disorder refuse to take on the responabilities of becoming an adult (driving, getting a job, doing house work, doing school work/homework, ect.) i think i may have a cousin with this disorder........ i hope this helped! : )

Answer 11

Typically an adult male who is a perpetual little boy who needs to be constantly mothered.

He does nothing, only takes.

He wants his toys. He doesn't clean up after himself. He wants to be fed. He wants to be pampered.

An adult who always just wants to have fun without any responsibility.

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