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==Origin== | ==Origin== | ||
Wikipedia as of 2019 attributes the term to late 20th century China (without much citation) or Collette Dowling in 1989. We do see earlier references however, tying the term to haughtiness and detachment from society. For example in Phyllis Greenacre's 1953 book, "Trauma Growth and Personality" in which he refers to women who "lack force in social and intellectual persuits" and describes a patient who he felt had a "kind of withdrawness which was not primarily a reactive introversion, but which gave a superficial impression of a princess complex, though without haughtiness". | Wikipedia as of 2019 attributes the term to late 20th century China (without much citation) or Collette Dowling in 1989. We do see earlier references however, tying the term to haughtiness and detachment from society. For example in Phyllis Greenacre's 1953 book, "Trauma Growth and Personality" in which he refers to women who "lack force in social and intellectual persuits" and describes a patient who he felt had a "kind of withdrawness which was not primarily a reactive introversion, but which gave a superficial impression of a princess complex, though without haughtiness". | ||
==Other terms== | |||
Variations or subsets of the term include, "Princess complex", "Princess sickness", "Jewish-American Princess", "Cherokee Princess", "Cinderella syndrome", "Disney princess syndrome" etc | |||
==Quotes== | ==Quotes== | ||