Erik H. Erikson, the psychoanalyst who profoundly reshaped views of human development, died yesterday at the Rosewood Manor Nursing Home in Harwich, Mass. He was 91. He had a brief illness, said his ...

In the late 1920s, Erik Erikson — a young, down-on-himself artist with only a high school degree — wandered into a job at a nursery school in Vienna. It was the one run by Anna Freud for the children ...

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 ...

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 ...

As the 2020 presidential election nears, this new blog will explore the intersection of politics, psychiatry, and psychoanalysis—and the mental health professions’ sometimes checkered past on these ...