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 ...

Integrity vs. despair is the eighth and final stage of Erik Erikson’s stage theory of psychosocial development. This stage ...

The following is the first installment of a three-part series. Too many years ago, while in a college psychology class, I was introduced to the teachings of Erik Erikson and his study of the eight ...

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 ...