Childhood and Society
Book description
The original and vastly influential ideas of Erik H. Erikson underlie much of our understanding of human development. His insights into the interdependence of the individuals' growth and historical change, his now-famous concepts of identity, growth, and the life cycle, have changed the way we perceive ourselves and society. Widely…
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A psychoanalyst who had never gone to college, Erikson was nonetheless made a Harvard professor around 1960.
His first (and most influential) book not only introduced his eight chronologically arrayed stages of human development (including the fifth stage with its famous “identity crisis”); it brilliantly portrayed the powerful messages that children received across widely different cultures (USA, Germany, Russian, and Amerindian). I was fortunate to have Erikson as my academic tutor for two years!
From Howard's list on offer new ways of thinking.
Erikson’s classic theoretical rubric clearly describes the positive and negative poles of social development across the life span. For the earliest years, these poles are: Trust vs. Mistrust; Autonomy vs. Shame and Doubt, and Initiative vs. Guilt. Freudian psychosexual theories of development and cross-cultural practices are also discussed.
From Alice's list on deeply understanding infant and toddler development.
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