#attachment
- abandon - The act of leaving, or permanently giving up on a person (child, partner), an asset, or an ongoing action. In clinical psychology and psychiatry, it is a central concept studied for its profound impact on emotional development, generating attachment traumas, severe anxiety, and persistent dysfunctional cognitive schemas.
- abandonat1 (adj.) - Having been left alone, deserted, or deprived of parental, medical, or emotional care; a clinical descriptor used for subjects who experienced a brutal severance of primary attachment bonds. Psychologically, an abandoned child or patient displays a major risk of developing anxiety-depressive disorders and borderline personality disorders.
- abandonic1 (adj.) - Exhibiting a pathological complex or fear of abandonment; relating to neurotic or defensive behaviors triggered by the fear of being left. An abandonic structure (or abandonic personality) tends to develop an anxious-dependent attachment, displaying extreme possessiveness or, conversely, a tendency to preemptively break off relationships for fear of being rejected.
- abandonică - The feminine form for the adjective or noun abandonic; a woman marked by an anxious hypersensitivity to separation or early desertions. In couples therapy, an abandonic structure requires interventions focused on strengthening Ego autonomy and establishing healthy interpersonal boundaries to temper the fear of rejection.
- Abeona - A mythological and cultural eponym transposed into developmental psychology and pediatric psychoanalysis (the Abeona complex, syndrome, or archetype). The concept denotes the protective maternal instinct of guiding and facilitating a child's first independent steps outside the secure family space. In the semiology of attachment, pathological manifestations of the Abeona type refer to severe parental separation anxiety (neurotic overprotection) that blocks the infant's motor and cognitive autonomy development.