Erik Erikson
American German-born psychoanalyst & essayist · Germany · Writers · Lived 1902 to 1994 · aged 91
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Something wrong?A child psychoanalyst with no university degree who taught at Harvard, Berkeley, and Yale - and gave the world the phrase "identity crisis."
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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.
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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.
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