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, ...

The study of human development is a rich and varied subject. We all have personal experience with development, but it is sometimes difficult to understand how and why people grow, learn, and act as ...

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 ...

WHEN HE WAS APPOINTED to the faculty of the Harvard Medical School in 1934, Erik H. Erikson had never studied medicine. He had no college degree, either, only a standard diploma from a German high ...

Erik H. Erikson, the psychoanalyst who profoundly reshaped views of human development, died Thursday at the Rosewood Manor Nursing Home in Harwich, Mass. He was 91. A friend and disciple of Sigmund ...

Oh no, says a young California psychiatrist. We've been thinking about incest all wrong. As a result, we are missing the real reasons for rampant sexual abuse in families. In fact, we may actually be ...

In the late 1920s, Erik Erikson — a young, down-on-himself artist with only a high school degree — wandered into a job at a nursery school in Vienna. It was the one run by Anna Freud for the children ...