Erik Erikson was born on June 15, 1902, in Frankfurt, Germany. His young Jewish mother, Karla Abrahamsen, raised Erik by herself for a time before marrying a physician, Dr. Theodore Homberger.

Erik Erikson was a German psychologist who theorized that there's a specific psychological struggle that takes place through the eight stages of a person's life. These struggles, he believed ...

Erikson, who died in 1994, theorized that personality is developed through eight different life stages, later called Erik Erikson’s stages of psychosocial development.

Erikson’s theory of psychosocial development states that at each stage, we face a crisis. By resolving it, we develop psychological strengths that help us become confident and healthy people ...

Erik Erikson (1902-1994) was a German-American developmental psychologist and psychoanalyst. He is best known for his Theory of Psychosocial Development in humans and is famous for coining the ...

Erik Erikson assigned one virtue to each of his eight psychosocial stages, such as wisdom for Stage 8, Integrity vs. Despair. Although Erikson ascribed such important virtues as hope and care to ...

A Way of Looking at Things: Selected Papers from 1930 to 1980By Erik EriksonEdited by Stephen SchlienNorton, 782 pages, $19.95Erik Erikson has had the greatest impact on our understanding of human ...

Erik Erikson developed the theory in the 1950's as an improvement on Freud's psychosexual stages. Erikson accepted many of Freud's theories (including the id, ego, and superego, and Freud's ...

Erik H. Erikson, a psychoanalyst who had understood Hitler’s intentions early, immigrated to the United States in 1933 after the completion of his psychoanalytic training in Vienna.

Intimacy vs Isolation is stage six according to Erik Erikson's model of human development. This stage spans from around age 19 to 40 and is characterized by how well you are able to form strong ...

STOCKBRIDGE — Norman Rockwell wasn't always as happy as his art suggests. "I sure owe a lot to Erik Erikson," Rockwell says near the end of "My Adventures as an Illustrator," the artist's 1960 ...