ERIK ERIKSON
Erik Erikson
Tracy Sizemore
University OF Phoenix


Erik Erikson
Erik Erikson has two major contributions to psychodynamics thought include a reappraisal of the ego and an extended view in the developmental stages (Heffner Media Group, 1999-2003). The ego's main job was to establish and maintain a sense of identity. The extended view of development, Erik Erikson was interested in how children socialize and how this affects their sense of self. Erik saw personality as development throughout the lifetime and looked at identity crisis at the focal point for each stage of human development.
If a person with a strong sense of identity and knows who he is and where he is at in his life and accepts that with room to grow and change would have a superego. The superego person would have a sense of uniqueness, belonging and wholeness. But with those who have a weaker ego, encounter harder times in their lives and with these poorer egos is what is termed an identity......

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