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 ...

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 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 ...

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Erik Erikson developed the concept of the identity crisis to characterize the phase of identity development that people experience in their teen years. The term is now used more commonly to refer ...