Princess syndrome: Difference between revisions

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".<ref>https://books.google.com/books?id=Nz9ZDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT299&lpg=PT299&dq=%22but+which+gave+a+superficial+impression+of+a+princess+complex,+though+without+haughtiness%22&source=bl&ots=1rw1DVQdMB&sig=ACfU3U1p6ShuJnn-Q3pb7QnCqruImWU18g&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjU3KfppKbmAhVGiOAKHXzvBnsQ6AEwAXoECAEQAQ#v=onepage&q=%22princess%20complex%22&f=false</ref>  Earlier references are unlikely as chivalry was pretty much universally seen as a good thing before the 20th century while typography existed.  And a young woman dreaming of a princess was typically viewed pre-20th century as naive at worst and not otherwise a particularly negative thing.