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-Analysts, XLI, 1-25 (1959(

John Bowlby
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Separation anxiety: The feeling of panic and distress when a person is separated from a person, place or thing that is important to him or her. Separation anxiety can be one of the most severe forms of separation disorder. The sufferer feels the presence of the object of attachment as though it were still physically present in the room with him. He may feel that he hasn't made any progress in life until he has been reunited with the object.

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