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Childhood and Society
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 450

Childhood and Society

The landmark work on the social significance of childhood. The original and vastly influential ideas of Erik H. Erikson underlie much of our understanding of human development. His insights into the interdependence of the individuals' growth and historical change, his now-famous concepts of identity, growth, and the life cycle, have changed the way we perceive ourselves and society. Widely read and cited, his works have won numerous awards including the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. Combining the insights of clinical psychoanalysis with a new approach to cultural anthropology, 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 American thought in the human sciences" (Margaret Mead, The American Scholar). Translated into numerous foreign languages, it has gone on to become a classic in the study of the social significance of childhood.

Identity's Architect
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 604

Identity's Architect

Drawing on private materials and extensive interviews, historian Lawrence J. Friedman illuminates the relationship between Erik Erikson's personal life and his notion of the life cycle and the identity crisis. --From publisher's description.

Identity and the Life Cycle
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 196

Identity and the Life Cycle

Erik H. Erikson's remarkable insights into the 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 theories. "Ego Development and Historical Change" is a selection of extensive notes in which Erikson first undertook to relate to each other observations on groups studied on field trips and on children studied longitudinally and clinically. These notes are representative of the source material used for Childhood and Society. "Growth and Crises of the Health Personality" takes Erikson beyond adolescence, into the critical stages of the whole life cycle. In the third and last essay, Erikson deals with "The Problem of Ego Identity" successively from biographical, clinical, and social points of view—all dimensions later pursued separately in his work.

The Life Cycle Completed (Extended Version)
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 143

The Life Cycle Completed (Extended Version)

"This book will last and last, because it contains the wisdom of two wonderfully knowing observers of our human destiny."—Robert Coles For decades Erik H. Erikson's concept of the stages of human development has deeply influenced the field of contemporary psychology. Here, with new material by Joan M. Erikson, is an expanded edition of his final work. The Life Cycle Completed eloquently closes the circle of Erikson's theories, outlining the unique rewards and challenges—for both individuals and society—of very old age.

The Stages of Psychosocial Development According to Erik H. Erikson
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 30

The Stages of Psychosocial Development According to Erik H. Erikson

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-11-13
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  • Publisher: GRIN Verlag

Scientific Essay from the year 2005 in the subject Psychology - Developmental Psychology, grade: 1,0, University of Kassel, language: English, abstract: Erik H. Erikson (1902 – 1994) is without a doubt one of the most outstanding psychoanalysts of the last century. The native Dane and later US-American further developed the psychosocial aspects and the developmental phases of adulthood in Sigmund Freud’s stage theory. It is Erikson’s basic assumption that in the course of a lifetime, the human being goes through eight developmental phases, which are laid out in an internal development plan. On each level, it is required to solve the relevant crisis, embodied by the integration of oppos...

Ideas and Identities
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 432

Ideas and Identities

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1998
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  • Publisher: Unknown

"Beautifully conceived and written, this book has succeeded in demonstrating Erikson's remarkable contributions to psychoanalysis and the social sciences. The distinguished authors of the various chapters have eloquently conveyed how Erikson approached and understood human psychosocial development and illuminate his contributions to the understanding of history, religion, and above all, to the problem of human identity. The editors are to be congratulated on the work they have created...." -- Prof. Joseph Sandler

The Erik Erikson Reader
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 534

The Erik Erikson Reader

"This volume, ably assembled and introduced by Robert Coles, presents the Essential Erikson."--Howard Gardner