Erik Erikson



Biography:

 Born in Frankfurt Germany, June 1902
 Jewish mother and Danish father who had left before he was born
 His stepfather was Jewish and Erikson was named after him
 He was rejected by his Jewish neighbor and teased in school
 1920’s – was both an artist and teacher; met Anna Freud and began to study child psychoanalyses
 1933 – Migrated to USA and obtained positions at Harvard Medical School, Yale, Berkeley, the Menninger Foundation, and Center for advanced study in the Behavioral Sciences at Palo Alto, and the Mount Zion Hospital in San Francisco
 He was interested in the influence of society and culture on child development and did search on this topic

Theory:
 Eight stages of psychosocial development
 These are stages are: Trust vs. Mistrust, Autonomy vs. Shame & Doubt, Initiative vs. Guilt, Industry vs. Inferiority, Identity vs. Role Confusion, Intimacy vs. Isolation, Generativity vs. Stagnation, and......

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Title: Neo-Freudian Erik Erikson
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