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Erikson, Erik Homburger (1902-1994), American psychologist, representative of ego psychology.
Born in Frankfurt am Main (Germany) June 15, 1902, grew up in Karlsruhe, studied at the classical gymnasium. In 1928 he studied at the Vienna Psychoanalytic Institute. Shortly after his graduation in 1933 he moved to the United States, where he worked in Boston and at Harvard University; later moved to Yale and then to Berkeley, where he worked for over ten years. In 1960 he became a professor at Harvard University, in 1968 he retired. Erickson died in Harwich, Massachusetts on May 12, 1994.
Erik Erikson’s personality development theory
Erik Erikson’s personality development theory states:
- The society for the child is not antagonistic.
- Personality develops from birth to death.
- Personality develops through successive stages of life.
- Stages of life, as stages of personality development, are the same for everyone
- There are eight stages in human development.
- A person can go through each stage of his development both safely and not.
- The transition from a stage to the next stage is a personality crisis.
- In a crisis, ego-identity is lost, the task of the psychotherapist is to return it. See →
Erik Erikson’s personality development theory among other approaches
Erik Erickson’s concept does not directly set pedagogical, educational or developmental tasks, it states the existing situation as the norm and notes unsuccessful, non-adaptive, undesirable development options. Erik Erickson’s concept is a manual for psychotherapeutic work, rather than for personal development specialists. See →
Publications
- Childhood and society, 1950
- Young Luther, 1958
- Understanding and Responsibility, 1964
- Identity: youth and crisis, 1968
- Truth Gandhi, 1969
- Life and historical moment, 1975
- The Completed Life Cycle: A Review, 1982
- Mode of Consideration, 1987