His most well-known theory may have stemmed from events in his childhood, of which he wrote, "No doubt my best friends will insist that I needed to name this crisis and to see it in everybody else in order to really come terms with it myself.
He was an artist and teacher in the 1920's when he met Anna Freud, who encouraged him to study child psychoanalysis. He would later extend her father's psychosexual approach with a theory that encompassed the entire life cycle and recognized the impact of society, history, and culture on personality development. His most well-known theory may have stemmed from events in his childhood, of which he wrote, "No doubt my best friends will insist that I needed to name this crisis and to see it in everybody else in order to really come terms with it myself." This is, FTP, what founder of psycho-sociology, author of Young Man Luther and developer of the concept of the "identity crisis"?
He was an artist and teacher in the 1920's when he met Anna Freud, who encouraged him to study child psychoanalysis.
Erik {Erikson}