After reviewing familiar findings on the importance to the infant of sustained close contact with the mother, the authors describe several cases of anaclitic depression. Institutionally reared young children with separation symptoms observed at Hampstead Nurseries later developed severe character disorders. A peripheral adult or peer figure may rescue the child from deprivation by the mother. Lower class families are more apt to produce those who avoid intimacy, externalize blame, or act out. Winnicott has described the patient who complains of a feeling of hollowness and something missing inside. This emptiness turns out to be an encapsulated deprived child. The patient is not psychotic, shows an extraordinary lack of inhibition, and keeps going from person to person, from one analyst to the next, feeling empty, abandoned, and devalued. No label is suggested. Since the authors stress the homelessness of these people, it may be that this will become the useful adjective.