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John Bowlby (1907–1990) was a British psychoanalyst who became concerned with the devastating impact of early mother–child separations, which he frequently witnessed when working in post-World War II England. Disturbed by the dismissal of real-life events in the psychoanalytic world view, Bowlby’s insistence on the real-time influence of the mother’s presence often put him at odds with his colleagues. Bowlby was also interested in ethology, the study of animal behavior, and eventually synthesized both psychoanalytic theory and ethology into his theory of infant-mother attachment.