Erik Erikson
Erik Erikson · Philosophy & Social Sciences
Developmental psychologist who formulated psychosocial stages and the identity crisis
1902, Frankfurt am Main, Germany — 1994, Harwich, Massachusetts, United States
Germany · United States
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Erikson was a developmental psychologist and psychoanalyst who formulated the eight psychosocial stages of human development and coined the term 'identity crisis'. His book 'Childhood and Society' and his psychobiographies of Luther and Gandhi were widely influential. He was born in Germany to a Danish Jewish mother, Karla Abrahamsen, and was raised in a Jewish household; he later emigrated to the United States.
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Developmental psychologist who formulated psychosocial stages and the identity crisis
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