A composite, first-person reconstruction of an inner world that is severely distressed. Itdepicts the state of mind of an individual with anxious-ambivalent attachment organizationunder the distress of spatial and temporal separation, lived through modern technology. It isoffered as description meant to be recognized; by those who have lived something like it, andby the clinicians who sit with them. For the clinical-interpretive companion to this material,see the corresponding Essay. Keywords: attachment anxiety; anxious-ambivalent attachment; separation distress; socialpain; affect regulation; digital communication
Tobey Gross (Fri,) studied this question.