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.

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

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...