Narcissist and the Peter Pan Syndrome: Emotionally Unavailable and Emotionally Immature Men

Transcend Mediocrity, Book 83

By: J.B. Snow

Narrated by: Sorrel Brigman

Many people have heard about the Peter Pan syndrome. The term was coined by Dr. Dan Kiley in the book The Peter Pan Syndrome: Men Who Have Never Grown Up. He also wrote another book terming the women who loved the emotionally immature man as "Wendy", referring to the Peter Pan story and movie in which Wendy falls in love with the boy who can never be who she wants him to be. He is the boy who is incapable of feeling love for another person, and he lives to serve his own sense of self, independence, and needs.

This audiobook seeks to define the traits of the men who may be classified as Peter Pans. We will also cover the harmless types of Peter Pans as well as mention those types who are much more harmful. We will touch on the frustrations that might occur in the interactions between Peter Pans and their friends, partners, and family members. Once we can define a Peter Pan, we can lower our expectations in relating to these types and seek to understand their limitations as we interact with them.

We have all met men who have the Peter Pan syndrome. Many of these men are also narcissistic and self-absorbed simply by the nature of the Peter Pan syndrome. A man who is stuck in his path through life as a boy never matures emotionally. He carries around his childhood sense of himself throughout his life. In many instances, his tastes do not grow or change. The way that he interacts with others does not grow or change. He is still stuck as a 12-year-old boy, or sometimes even younger, in his emotional development.

©2015 J.B. Snow (P)2015 J.B. Snow

Way too short!

Great information but very surface level. There needs to be more depth and content. For $14.95 twenty minutes of audio is a rip. I can get this from YouTube for free!

So helpful

Currently a college student in psychology and just an average hurt woman searching for answers. You have given me just that, not so much for men but more for my suspected peter pan syndrome mother. Thank you.

Expected more info

The book was interesting but I was expecting more detail regarding narcissist. I thought the narrator sounded automated-commercial. Would recommend if you know little to nothing about the subject-very little depth on the subject.

Short, simple and invaluable!

Ive never heard such an accurate description of the person I have issues with as I did in this book. It may only be 20 minutes but if you have a "Peter Pan" husband, its the best 20 minutes you can spend to learn about it!

too short

Interesting fusion of ideas, as a premise, but nothing offered about how to manage, cope, transform. Nothing about narcissism is touched upon. Very short experience.