Q: Why is Erikson’s theory of psychosocial development important? A: Its importance lies in the fact that it provides a holistic view of development throughout the entire lifespan. It also stresses on ...

Erik Erikson has had the greatest impact on our understanding of human development since Sigmund Freud. While Freud`s theory of psychosexual development focuses on the disturbances of early childhood, ...

Erikson's stages of psychosocial development describes eight developmental stages through which a healthily developing human should pass from infancy to late adulthood. In each stage the person ...

Erik Erikson's psychosocial developmental theory (1950, 1968) was a response to Freud's reductionistic views of the human personality. For Erikson, all people have an essence, including the sexuality ...

Human psychology is very complex to understand, we have range of emotions, behaviours and problems to deal with. Understanding each problems and phase through which a person goes at different levels ...

Complexity is the soul’s oxygen. Complexity, according to the late psychoanalyst Erik Erikson, is what enables us to be fully, radiantly human. Trying to simplify, trying to drive out the ...

Joan Mowat Erikson, who helped reshape the prevailing psychological view of human development through a six-decade, all-senses collaboration with her husband, Erik Erikson, died on Sunday at a nursing ...