childhood obsessions

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what is the word, which defines people, who urge to live in their childhood and always prefer to buy the objects of their childhood?

-- emre ozguder (mrzgdr@ixir.com), May 11, 2003

Answers

Immaturity? :-) There was a "pop" psychology book a few years ago called the "Peter Pan Syndrome" along these lines, but it is not an "official" diagnostic category. More seriously, the category of schizophrenia now called "disorganized type" used to be called (in DSM II?) "hebephrenia" and was described as being a kind of fixation in one's youth, but I don't think you're speaking of problems that are so serious, are you?

-- Christopher Green (christo@yorku.ca), May 12, 2003.

I think 'Peter Pan Syndrome' is indeed what you're looking for. The book that introduced the term was written by Dan Kiley in 1983, its title is _The Peter Pan Syndrome: Men Who Have Never Grown Up_. It appears that this can happen to women to, in which case one can refer to the 'Wendy syndrome'.

-- Casper Hulshof (c.d.hulshof@utwente.nl), May 13, 2003.

This is more of a question. I am trying to find out information about the "Wendy syndrome"

-- Amanda Scheetz (grayce1232001@yahoo.com), September 16, 2004.

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