Bowlby's views—that children were responding to real life events and not unconscious fantasies—were rejected by psychoanalysts, and Bowlby was effectively ostracised by the psychoanalytic community.
Bowlby synspunkter-at børn reagerer på virkelige begivenheder i livet og ikke bevidstløs fantasier-blev afvist af psykoanalytikere, og Bowlby reelt udstødt af den psykoanalytiske samfund.