"One is the cynical story that satirizes humans' over-attachment to their pets.

Dr Holmes said over-attachment to a particular person can be reduced by:

Is there not a certain over-attachment to one's own salvation and individual worth, with the consequence that missionary endeavour becomes centred on individuals?

Owners should be educated in keeping their dogs happy in their absence and to avoid over-attachment.

The programmes developed by egalitarian and woman-centred feminist psychologists are manifestations of this over-attachment to certainty.

Tarika struggles to decide which life suits him best and as is his tendency, develops somewhat of an over-attachment to Charlotte.

But it replicates egalitarian feminist psychology's over-attachment to certainty, and to closed, self-sufficient explanatory systems.

Separation anxiety is a separation problem caused by the dog's over-attachment upon its owner and its subsequent inability to cope when left alone.

It is an over-concern with the material things in life stemming from over-attachment to wealth and honor, and it belongs to passion-lust.

One witness, Debra Saalfield, said Mitchell had convinced her her problems stemmed from a past life as an Egyptian princess and her over-attachment to money.

Mr. Russell said his producers and other advisers "had to disabuse me of that over-attachment to the young Dustin Hoffman picture, and I'm glad they did."

Perhaps we are more on our guard against the possibility of over-attachment by or to the adolescent or prepubertal child - or what may be seen as over-attachment.

The former was dictated by high spiritual aims, and the contempt of material goods; the latter is the fruit of over-attachment to material goods, and the envy of their possessors.