It's also interesting to see how his ideas develop over time, perhaps aided by his own journey through the 'psychosocial crisis' stages model that underpinned his work. Erik Erikson first published his eight-stage theory of human development in his 1950 book Childhood and Society. The chapter...
8 Stages of Psychosocial Development Erikson was aneo-Freudianpsychologist who accepted many of the central tenets ofFreudian theorybut added his own ideas and beliefs. His theory of psychosocial development is centered on what is known as theepigenetic principle, which proposes that all people go t...