Erik Erikson was born in Frankfurt, Germany, in 1902.
While he was a young child Erikson struggled with his identity because he felt his stepfather
never fully accepted him as he did his own daughters. Erikson grew up using his
stepfather’s surname; he eventually adopted the name Erikson in 1939. After
meeting Anna Freud while working in Vienna, Erikson
decided to pursue the field of psychoanalysis.
Erikson affected psychology by developing Sigmund
Freud's unique five phases of advancement. Spearheading the investigation of
the life cycle, Erikson trusted that every individual advanced through eight
phases of improvement. Erikson emphasized that the environment played a major
role in self-awareness, adjustment, human development, and identity. Each of
Erikson's stages of psychosocial development focus on a central conflict. In
Erikson's theory of development, children don't consequently finish every
phase on a foreordained calendar. Rather, individuals face summed up
difficulties all through life, and the routes in which they answer these
difficulties figure out if they grow facilitate or stagnate at a specific phase
of development. Erikson's eight stages and related difficulties incorporate:
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