“erik homburger erikson”

Erik H. Erikson's remarkable insights into relationship of life history and history began with observations on a central stage of life: identity development in adolescence. This book collects three early papers that-along with Childhood and Society-many consider the best introduction to Erikson's th... More

Identity: Youth and Crisis collects Erik H. Erikson's major essays on topics originating in the concept of the adolescent identity crisis. Identity, Erikson writes, is as unfathomable as it is all-pervasive. It deals with a process that is located both in the core of the individual and in the core o... More

Childhood and Society deals with the relationships between childhood training and cultural accomplishment, analyzing the infantile and the mature, the modern and the archaic elements in human motivation. It was hailed upon its first publication as 'a rare and living combination of European and Ameri... More

Erik H. Erikson is recognized as one of the world's leading figures in the field of psychoanalysis and human development. His ideas about the stages of development, the sources of identity, and the interdependence of individual growth and historical change revolutionized our understanding of the nat... More

For decades Erik H. Erikson's concept of the stages of human development has deeply influenced the field of contemporary psychology. Incorporating new material by Joan M. Erickson, THE LIFE CYCLE COMPLETED eloquently closes the circle of Erik Erikson's theories, outlining the unique rewards and chal... More

Erik H. Erikson's way of looking at things has vastly enriched our understanding of human development and the nature of man. His insights into the interdependence of the individual's growth and historical change, his now-famous concepts of identity, epigenesis, and the life cycle, have changed the w... More