Reviewed by Steven Gans, MD Key Takeaways Between the ages of 18 months and 3 years, children begin to express a greater need for independence and control over themselves and the world around ...

How his own identity struggle shaped his theories ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 Erikson was a psychologist who famously developed the stages of psychosocial development. Each of these stages constitutes a crisis every human will experience during his or her lifetime. One’s ...

Psychologist Erik Erikson's attempt to map out the vast, strange jungle of human identity shouldn’t be allowed to evaporate into history.

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 ...