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- 2. Erik Erikson’s Theories • Known for his theory on psychosocial development of human beings. • Specialized in child analysis and underwent a training analysis with Anna Freud. Helene Deutsch and Edward Bibring supervised his initial treatment of an adult. • Studied the Montessori method of education, which focused on child development and sexual stages.
- 3. Work in Education • Erikson became the first child psychoanalyst in Boston and held positions at Massachusetts General Hospital, the Judge Baker Guidance Center, and at Harvard Medical School and Psychological Clinic, establishing a singular reputation as a clinician. • In 1936, Erikson left Harvard and joined the staff at Yale University, where he worked at the Institute of Human Relations and taught at the Medical School. While at Yale he became a naturalized citizen of the United States and changed his family's surname from his adoptive father's name of "Homburger" to "Erikson. • he was invited to observe the education of native Sioux children on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota.
- 4. Erik Erikson’ Theories • Theory of development and the ego which stressed the role of the ego as being more than a servant of the id. According to Erikson, the environment in which a child lived was crucial to providing growth, adjustment, a source of self- awareness and identity. • Theory of personality. Erikson's research suggests that each individual must learn how to hold both extremes of each specific life-stage challenge in tension with one another, not rejecting one end of the tension or the other.
- 5. Erik ERIKSON’S Quotes • Children love and want to be loved and they very much prefer the joy of accomplishment to the triumph of hateful failure. Do not mistake a child for his symptom. • When established identities become outworn or unfinished ones threaten to remain incomplete, special crises compel men to wage holy wars, by the cruelest means, against those who seem to question or threaten their unsafe ideological bases. • You can actively flee, then, and you can actively stay put • Doubt is the brother of shame. • Someday, maybe, there will exist a well-informed, well considered and yet fervent public conviction that the most deadly of all possible sins is the mutilation of a child’s spirit; for such mutilation undercuts the life principle of trust, without which every human act, may it feel ever so good and seem ever so right is prone to perversion by destructive forms of conscientiousness.
- 6. QUOTES • When established identities become outworn or unfinished ones threaten to remain incomplete, special crises compel men to wage holy wars, by the cruelest means, against those who seem to question or threaten their unsafe ideological bases. • Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.
- 7. QUOTES • “those who seem to question or threaten their unsafe ideological bases.” • “as nurturing is the peculiar province of women.” • “existence, there is no feeling of being alive without a sense of identity.
- 8. Erik Erikson’s References • "Erik Erikson, 91, Psychoanalyst Who Reshaped Views of Human Growth, Dies", New York Times, March 13, 1994. • Haggbloom, Steven J.; Warnick, Jason E.; Jones, Vinessa K.; Yarbrough, Gary L.; Russell, Tenea M.; Borecky, Chris M.; McGahhey, Reagan; et al. (2002). "The 100 most eminent psychologists of the 20th century“. Review of General Psychology 6(2): 139–152. doi:10.1037/1089- 2680.6.2.139. • Friedman, Lawrence Jacob (2000). Identity's architect: a biography of Erik H. Erikson. Harvard University Press. p. 29.ISBN978-0-674-00437-5. • "Psychology” Sweet Briar College. Retrieved 2013-08-30. • Hoare, Carol (2001). "Chapter 2, Erikson's Thought in Context". Erikson on Development in Adulthood: New Insights from the Unpublished Papers. Oxford University Press, USA. pp. 7–12. ISBN 978-0195131758.
- 9. Conclusion A person can lose their ego and personality due to unknown identification. It will take a total of some people and leads to failure while on others success can be achieved. Life is better when each stage of life is fulfilled with grown and accomplishments.