# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
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# Generated: 2026-09-01T09:19:10.579Z

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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
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.