Erickson

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: