Erikson

Erik Erikson

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  • birth

    Frankfort, Germany
  • Period: to

    no longer a Salomonsen

    officially adopted by step father, having his last name changed to Homburger

  • young adult

    traveled Europe, recording his experiences in a personal diary

  • married at 28

    ~to Joan Erikson
    ~Erik converted to Christianity for her
    ~they had three kids together

  • education and after

    ~graduated from the Vienna Psychoanalytic Institute in Britain
    ~moved to the United States and became Boston's first child analyst
    ~taught at the Institute of Human Relations at Harvard Medical School

  • 1st publishing

    "Childhood and Society"

  • extended career

    worked and taught at the Austen Riggs Center for 10 years

  • Erikson's stages of psychosocial development

    ~the 8 stages of childhood development in relation to society's affect on an individual's becoming, explained
    ~first introduced in his publishing "Childhood and Society"
    ~prominent in psychological lectures to this day

  • 2nd publishing

    "Young man Luther"

  • (career) back again

    went back to teach at Harvard as a Human Development professor

  • 3rd publishing

    "Youth: Change and Challenge"

  • 4th publishing

    "Insight and Responsibility"

  • 5th publishing

    "Identity: Youth and Crisis"

  • ended career

    retired from Harvard

  • recognition

    nominated by The National Endowment for the Humanities for 1973 to withhold the Jefferson Lecture which recognized him as one who made great scholarly contributions to the humanities and is in possession of the capability to communicate wisdom concerning the humanities in a vitally appealing manner

  • death

    Erikson died in Harwich, Massachusetts of unknown causes