# Erik Erikson

> A child psychoanalyst with no university degree who taught at Harvard, Berkeley, and Yale - and gave the world the phrase "identity crisis."

*American German-born psychoanalyst & essayist*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Writer / Author
- **Category:** Writers
- **Country:** Germany
- **Born:** 1902-06-15
- **Died:** 1994-05-12
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Born Erik Salomonsen on 15 June 1902, he became Erik Homburger Erikson and trained as a child psychoanalyst in an era when formal credentials mattered less than depth of thought. He developed a theory of psychosocial development that tracked human growth across the entire lifespan, not just childhood, and in doing so coined "identity crisis" - a term that escaped the academy and entered ordinary speech. Without a degree, he held professorships at Harvard, Berkeley, and Yale. A 2002 survey of general psychology ranked him 12th among the century's most eminent psychologists. He died 12 May 1994, having spent decades as both a visual artist and a theorist of how selves are made.

## Fame
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## Topics
#Academics, #Academic, #Psychology, #Germany, #Europe, #20th Century

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