Peter Pan Syndrome

The American psychologist Dan Kiley called the Peter Pan syndrome as a whole has features that a person who does not know or may not be a son to start being a father. The man / child who refuses to grow up unable to care for and protect people and to exchange equal role in the context of a partner.

Pathological exhibits a gap between his chronological age and emotional maturity. Men who boast jovial, friendly soul of the holidays, sports, applied seducers of girls ages notoriously inadequate, often nothing more than "bread peter" emotionally immature and developers much unhappiness in relationships. These are men who have not learned the difference between growing up and being adults.

Moreover, the complex or Wendy Dilemma, by Dan Kiley noted when speaking of the maternal attitude, concerns the role of Wendy in the Peter Pan story, which represents a model of women failing to control their own lives making efforts to control his partner through a maternal role.

Despite being a problem that occurs in both sexes and all ages, Wendy's syndrome is much less frequent.

Resisting purchasing the responsibilities that come with entering the adult stage, while producing personal imbalances can lead to serious problems in a partnership that works. Share a common project of living with someone who is away or unable to sacrifice the pleasures of youth to put all you have to get some goals, not always easy, but necessary part of producing dissatisfaction, just becoming a drag when it comes to fighting for these goals.

Given the impossibility of finding the source of eternal adolescence, of men in today's society have chosen to anchor in a youth while not physical, it guarantees them psychological comfort and face the day to day without going beyond, a sort of problem with Carpe Diem increases with age of the individual physical. This is definitely a sweet temptation between youth and adulthood, between the land of Neverland and the real world. The first is always more attractive and tempting, but time, take the bull by the horns and learn to make the step from one state to another. If the new Peter Pan everything goes well, will enjoy for many years, but reached a moment of reflection which will begin its crisis. Although he enjoys economic and professional success, he realizes that his life there is nothing stable or firm.

During the time that this syndrome is low, you live with the very short term, the person feels dissatisfied with what surrounds him but does nothing to fix. Your search for satisfaction in every moment, you can turn to alcohol and drugs as a way of obtaining instant. Always seek the guilt of everything that happens around them in the other, without ever really feel part of the problem, or even of the solution.