ERIK ERIKSON Flashcards
PSYCHOSOCIAL THEORY
ERIK ERIKSON
German born American developmental psychologist and psychoanalyst known for his theory on psychosocial development of human beings. He may be most famous for coining the phrase “identity crisis”
ERIK ERIKSON
• Born on June 15, 1902 in Frankfurt, Germany and died on May 12, 1994 in Harwich, Massachusetts
ERIK ERIKSON
• He had his education in University of Vienna
ERIK ERIKSON
• Influenced by Sigmund Freud and Anna Freud
ERIK ERIKSON
• Published several books:
- Childhood and Society
- Young man Luther
- Youth: Change and Challenge
- Insight and Responsibility
- Identity: Youth and Crisis
ERIK ERIKSON
• Became Boston’s first child analyst and obtained a position at the Harvard Medical School
ERIK ERIKSON
• He also held positions at institutions including Yale, Berkeley and the Menninger Foundation
ERIK ERIKSON
• Erikson then returned to California to the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Palo Alto and later the Mount Zion Hospital in San Francisco, where he was a clinician and psychiatric consultant
ERIK ERIKSON
• He stresses the importance of culture and society in personality development
ERIK ERIKSON
• Described child development in terms of developmental tasks that must be achieved
ERIK ERIKSON
- Trust versus Mistrust
- Autonomy versus Shame and Doubt
- Initiative versus Guilt
- Industry versus Inferiority
- Identity versus Role Confusion
- Intimacy versus Isolation
- Generativity versus Stagnation
- Integrity versus Despair
8 STAGES OF PSYCHOSOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
- Infancy
- Trust versus Mistrust
- Learns to love and be loved
- Trust versus Mistrust
- Provide security such as soft sounds and touch
- Trust versus Mistrust
- Positive: children develop a sense of trust when caregiver provide reliability, care and affection
- Trust versus Mistrust
- Negative: withdrawal, apprehensive suspicious around people
- Trust versus Mistrust
- Toddlerhood
- Autonomy versus Shame and Doubt
- Provide opportunities for decision making
- Autonomy versus Shame and Doubt