If they accept it, they may generalize that life is empty, meaningless, and uninfluenceable, and they are left with a chronic sense of incompleteness, emptiness, longing, futility, and existential despair. (ANACLITIC VERSION)
- they see themselves as chronically inadequate and longing, but destined to a life of disappointment.
- Healthier anaclitic clients are also easy to work with, though their underlying passivity can be irritating
- therapy may have to be long term in order to avoid recreating a situation in which they make an attachment and then lose it prematurely under circumstances beyond their control.