Peter Pan syndrome

The Peter Pan syndrome isn't all about fear of commitment, you know.

It has been very hard for me to grow up, I'm a victim of the Peter Pan syndrome."

Peter Pan syndrome is the pop-psychology concept of an adult (usually male) who is socially immature.

"And I think everybody here has that Peter Pan Syndrome: they don't want to grow up.

THIS time of year, many companies are afflicted with the Peter Pan syndrome.

Still, Dex is a likable guy, a walking epitome of the Peter Pan syndrome.

The concept of the Boomerang Generation is closely related to Peter Pan Syndrome.

The Peter Pan Syndrome (22 October 70)

"It's a variation on the Peter Pan syndrome," Mr. Hokenson said.

Kay R. Daly calls it "Peter Pan Syndrome"

Peter Pan Syndrome (manga)

In the 1970's the Peter Pan syndrome became a cliché of psychobabble applied to male baby boomers perceived as reluctant to grow up and settle down.

Peter Pan Syndrome (2005, Mayu Sakai)

Peter Pan syndrome (Puer Aeternus)

Later the AIP publicity department devised a strategy called "The Peter Pan Syndrome":

He describes Castle as being "a bit of a douche" with a Peter Pan syndrome stemming from a lack of a "real male adult role model in his life".

This book is a sequel to The Peter Pan Syndrome: Men Who Have Never Grown Up, about individuals (usually male) with underdeveloped maturity.

Beats 'n' Rhymes (2007, Pistache) ("Peter Pan Syndrome", "Never Coming Down")

Brad, who plays quarterback on the local football team and is entranced by teenage skateboarding culture, is a classic case of a man in the throes of Peter Pan syndrome.

Where else but at the Learning Place could you find a course called "The Peter Pan Syndrome in the Novels of George Eliot and Gail Godwin"?

Japanese manga artist, Mayu Sakai, appropriated the English version of the term, puer aeternus, for her series, Peter Pan Syndrome.

Several celebrities have been cited as having the Peter Pan syndrome, e.g., Peter Andre, Jamie Oliver, Davina McCall, and Holly Willoughby.

Dan Kiley, the psychologist whose 1983 book, "The Peter Pan Syndrome," became an international best seller and led to a wave of copycat pop-psychology books, died on Saturday in Tucson, Ariz.

Mr. Bailey seems caught in some version of a state that a 1980's pop-psych book dubbed the Peter Pan Syndrome, devising clothes for children who find themselves not altogether willingly cast in adult roles.

At this moment, the film's nostalgia reaches its peak, but Mr. Spielberg restrains the impulse - dominant in "Close Encounters" and, disastrously, in "Hook" - to indulge his own Peter Pan syndrome.