Six Concepts of Psychosocial Theory
Human Growth and Development
“Identify and discuss the six basic concepts of the psychosocial theory.”
Erik Erikson was born June 15, 1902 in Frankfurt, Germany. His father, a Danish man, abandoned the family before he was born, while his Jewish mother later married a physician, Dr. Theodor Homberger. In school, Erikson was teased by other children because he was tall, blonde and blue-eyed – he was considered Nordic – and at grammar class he was rejected because he was Jewish. It is from this - his own experiences in school during his early age, that he developed his interest in identity (Friedman, 1999). Erik Erikson studied psychoanalysis from Anna Freud and earned a certificate from the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society. Following this he moved to the United States in 1933 and was offered a teaching position at Harvard Medical School. Additionally, he ran private practice in child psychoanalysis. Later on, he also held teaching positions at University of California at Berkeley, Yale, San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute, Austen Riggs Center, and Center for Advanced Studies of the Behavioral Sciences. Erik Erikson spent time studying the cultural life of the Sioux of South Dakota and the Yurok of northern California. Fashioning after that of Freud 's psychosexual theory, he later developed his own theory of development - Psychosocial Theory. Erikson based his Psychosocial Theory of Development on the knowledge he gained of cultural, environmental and social influences to further develop his psychoanalytic theory. He later published a number of books on his theories and research, including Childhood and Society and The Life Cycle Completed and his book Gandhi 's Truth was awarded a Pulitzer Prize and a national Book Award, (Coles, 1970).
Like Freud, Erikson believed that personality develops in a series of predetermined stages. Each looked at the human growth and development through a number of stages. Each shared the
“Identify and discuss the six basic concepts of the psychosocial theory.”
Erik Erikson was born June 15, 1902 in Frankfurt, Germany. His father, a Danish man, abandoned the family before he was born, while his Jewish mother later married a physician, Dr. Theodor Homberger. In school, Erikson was teased by other children because he was tall, blonde and blue-eyed – he was considered Nordic – and at grammar class he was rejected because he was Jewish. It is from this - his own experiences in school during his early age, that he developed his interest in identity (Friedman, 1999). Erik Erikson studied psychoanalysis from Anna Freud and earned a certificate from the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society. Following this he moved to the United States in 1933 and was offered a teaching position at Harvard Medical School. Additionally, he ran private practice in child psychoanalysis. Later on, he also held teaching positions at University of California at Berkeley, Yale, San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute, Austen Riggs Center, and Center for Advanced Studies of the Behavioral Sciences. Erik Erikson spent time studying the cultural life of the Sioux of South Dakota and the Yurok of northern California. Fashioning after that of Freud 's psychosexual theory, he later developed his own theory of development - Psychosocial Theory. Erikson based his Psychosocial Theory of Development on the knowledge he gained of cultural, environmental and social influences to further develop his psychoanalytic theory. He later published a number of books on his theories and research, including Childhood and Society and The Life Cycle Completed and his book Gandhi 's Truth was awarded a Pulitzer Prize and a national Book Award, (Coles, 1970).
Like Freud, Erikson believed that personality develops in a series of predetermined stages. Each looked at the human growth and development through a number of stages. Each shared the
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