American German-born psychoanalyst & essayist
A child psychoanalyst with no university degree who taught at Harvard, Berkeley, and Yale — and gave the world the phrase "identity crisis."
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,…
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All world-images are apt to become corrupt when left to ecclesiastic bureaucracies. But this does not make the formation of world-images expendable.
Doubt is the brother of shame.
Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.
Children love and want to be loved and they very much prefer the joy of accomplishment to the triumph of hateful failure. Do not mistake a child for his symptom.
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