Erik Erikson has had the greatest impact on our understanding of human development since Sigmund Freud. While Freud`s theory of psychosexual development focuses on the disturbances of early childhood, ...

Erikson's stages of psychosocial development describes eight developmental stages through which a healthily developing human should pass from infancy to late adulthood. In each stage the person ...

Most of us think about childhood as the time when our personality develops and grows. It’s no wonder—a lot does happen in those early years. However, what if I told you that we actually continue to ...

Autonomy versus shame and doubt is the second stage of Erik Erikson’s stages of psychosocial development. This stage occurs between the age of 18 months and around age 2 or 3 years. According to ...

Soon after a party in June celebrating the 88th birthday of Erik Erikson and the 87th birthday of his wife, Joan, the psychoanalyst turned to his artist spouse and said, “We have to keep learning and ...

Erik Erikson's psychosocial developmental theory (1950, 1968) was a response to Freud's reductionistic views of the human personality. For Erikson, all people have an essence, including the sexuality ...

Erik H. Erikson, the psychoanalyst who profoundly reshaped views of human development, died yesterday at the Rosewood Manor Nursing Home in Harwich, Mass. He was 91. He had a brief illness, said his ...