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"for to have a deep attachment for a person (or a place or thing) is to have taken them as the terminating object of our instinctual responses."Separation anxiety. International Journal of Psycho-Analy..."

- John Bowlby

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"It will happen but it will take time."

- John Bowlby

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"The stark nakedness and simplicity of the conflict with which humanity is oppressed - that of getting angry with and wishing to hurt the very person who is most loved."

- John Bowlby

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"young children, who for whatever reason are deprived of the continuous care and attention of a mother or a substitute-mother, are not only temporarily disturbed by such deprivation, but may in some ca..."

- John Bowlby

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"It was regarded as almost outside the proper interest of an analyst to give systematic attention to a person's real experiences."

- John Bowlby

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