Reviewed by Steven Gans, MD Key Takeaways Between the ages of 18 months and 3 years, children begin to express a greater need ...

How his own identity struggle shaped his theories ...

Erikson's stages of psychosocial development describes eight developmental stages through which a healthily developing human should pass from infancy to late adulthood. In each stage the person ...

Erik Erikson developed a psychosocial stage theory that illuminates how people progress through certain stages during their lifespans. The stages in this theory of development may be negotiated poorly ...

Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I, I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. Robert Frost’s famous poem “The Road Not Taken” tells the ...

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, including the sexuality ...