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{{Short description|American psychoanalyst and essayist (1902-1994)}}
{{for|other people with similar names|Eric Erickson (disambiguation)}}
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|name              = Erik Erikson
|image             = Erik Erikson.jpg
|birth_name        = Erik Salomonsen
|birth_date        = {{Birth date|1902|6|15|df=y}}
|birth_place       = [[Frankfurt]], [[Grand Duchy of Hesse|Hesse]], [[German Empire]]<ref name="NYTObit">{{cite news |date=13 March 1994 |title=Erik Erikson, 91, Psychoanalyst Who Reshaped Views of Human Growth, Dies |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/05/13/obituaries/erik-erikson-91-psychoanalyst-who-reshaped-views-of-human-growth-dies.html |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=19 October 2017}}</ref>
|death_date        = {{death date and age|1994|5|12|1902|6|15|df=y}}
|death_place       = [[Harwich, Massachusetts|Harwich]], [[Massachusetts]], U.S.<ref name="NYTObit" />
|residence         = 
|citizenship       = {{hlist | American | German}}
|discipline        = Psychology
|sub_discipline    = {{hlist | [[Developmental psychology]] | [[psychoanalysis]]}}
|workplaces        = {{unbulleted list | [[Yale University]] | [[University of California, Berkeley]] | [[University of Pittsburgh]] | [[Harvard University]]}}
|alma_mater        =
|doctoral_advisor  =
|doctoral_students =
|notable_students  = [[Richard Sennett]]
|notable_works     = {{unbulleted list | ''[[Childhood and Society]]'' (1950) | ''[[Young Man Luther]]'' (1958) | ''[[Gandhi's Truth]]'' (1969) | ''The Life Cycle Completed'' (1987)}}
|notable_ideas     = [[Erikson's stages of psychosocial development|Theory on psychological development]]
|influences        = {{hlist | [[Ruth Benedict]]{{sfn|Burston|2007|p=93}} | [[Anna Freud]]{{sfn|Stevens|2008|p=109}} | [[Sigmund Freud]]<ref>{{cite web |last=McLeod |first=Saul |year=2017 |orig-date=2008 |title=Erik Erikson |url=https://www.simplypsychology.org/Erik-Erikson.html |work=Simply Psychology |access-date=20 October 2017}}</ref> | [[Margaret Mead]]{{sfn|Burston|2007|p=93}}}}
|influenced        = {{hlist | [[Eric Berne]]{{sfn|Heathcoate|2010|p=257}} | [[Robert Coles (psychiatrist)|Robert Coles]]{{sfn|Eckenfels|2008|p=vii}} | [[James W. Fowler]]{{sfn|Osmer|Bridgers|2018}} | [[Howard Gardner]]<ref>{{cite web |last=Ireland |first=Corydon |date=17 October 2013 |title=Howard Gardner: 'A Blessing of Influences' |url=https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2013/10/the-mentors-of-howard-gardner/ |work=Harvard Gazette |location=Cambridge, Massachusetts |publisher=Harvard University |access-date=20 October 2017}}</ref> | [[James Marcia]]}}
|awards            = {{unbulleted list | [[Pulitzer Prize]] (1970) | [[National Book Award]] (1970)}}
|footnotes         =
|signature         =
|spouse            = {{marriage|[[Joan Erikson|Joan Serson]]|1930}}
|children          = 4, including [[Kai T. Erikson]]
}}

'''Erik Homburger Erikson''' (born '''Erik Salomonsen'''; 15 June 1902 – 12 May 1994) was a German-American child [[psychoanalyst]] and [[visual artist]] known for his [[Erikson's stages of psychosocial development|theory on psychosocial development]] of human beings. He coined the phrase [[identity crisis]].

Despite lacking a university degree, Erikson served as a [[professor]] at prominent institutions, including [[Harvard]], [[University of California, Berkeley]],<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/people/medicine/psychology-and-psychiatry-biographies/erik-erikson|title=Erik Erikson|date=2018|website=Encyclopedia}}</ref> and [[Yale]]. A ''[[Review of General Psychology]]'' survey, published in 2002, ranked Erikson as the 12th most eminent psychologist of the 20th century.{{sfn|Haggbloom et al.|2002}}

==Early life==
Erikson's mother, Karla Abrahamsen, came from a prominent [[Jewish]] family in [[Copenhagen]], [[Denmark]]. She was married to Jewish stockbroker Valdemar Isidor Salomonsen but had been estranged from him for several months at the time Erik was conceived. Little is known about Erik's biological father except that he was a non-Jewish Dane. On discovering her pregnancy, Karla fled to [[Frankfurt am Main]] in [[Germany]] where Erik was born on 15 June 1902 and was given the surname ''Salomonsen''.{{sfn|Friedman|2000|p=29}} She fled due to conceiving Erik out of wedlock, and the identity of Erik's birth father was never made clear.<ref name=":0" />

Following Erik's birth, Karla trained to be a nurse and moved to [[Karlsruhe]], Germany. In 1905 she married a Jewish [[Pediatrics|pediatrician]], Theodor Homburger. In 1908, Erik Salomonsen's name was changed to Erik Homburger, and in 1911 he was officially adopted by his stepfather.<ref>{{cite web |title=Erik H. Erikson |url=http://www.psychology.sbc.edu/mccomas.htm |location=Sweet Briar, Virginia |publisher=Sweet Briar College |access-date=30 August 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130515084527/http://www.psychology.sbc.edu/mccomas.htm |archive-date=15 May 2013 }}</ref> Karla and Theodor told Erik that Theodor was his real father, only revealing the truth to him in late childhood; he remained bitter about the deception all his life.<ref name=":0" />

The development of [[Identity (social science)|identity]] seems to have been one of Erikson's greatest concerns in his own life as well as being central to his theoretical work. As an older adult, he wrote about his adolescent "identity confusion" in his European days. "My identity confusion", he wrote, "[was at times on] the borderline between neurosis and adolescent psychosis." Erikson's daughter wrote that her father's "real psychoanalytic identity" was not established until he "replaced his stepfather's surname [Homburger] with a name of his invention [Erikson]."{{sfn|Erikson Bloland|2005|pp=62, 64}} The decision to change his last name came about as he started his job at Yale, and the "Erikson" name was accepted by Erik's family when they became American citizens.<ref name=":0" /> It is said his children enjoyed the fact they would not be called "Hamburger" any longer.<ref name=":0" />

Erik was a tall, blond, blue-eyed boy who was raised in the Jewish religion. Due to these mixed identities, he was a target of bigotry by both Jewish and gentile children. At temple school, his peers teased him for being [[Nordic countries|Nordic]]; while at grammar school, he was teased for being Jewish.{{sfn|Hoare|2002|p=8}} At Das Humanistische Gymnasium his main interests were art, history, and languages, but he lacked a general interest in school and graduated without academic distinction.{{Sfn|Stevens|1983|loc=ch. 1}} After graduation, instead of attending medical school as his stepfather had desired, he attended art school in [[Munich]], much to the liking of his mother and her friends.

Uncertain about his vocation and his fit in society, Erik dropped out of school and began a lengthy period of roaming about Germany and Italy as a wandering artist with his childhood friend Peter Blos and others. For children from prominent German families, taking a "wandering year" was not uncommon. During his travels, he often sold or traded his sketches to people he met. Eventually, Erik realized he would never become a full-time artist and returned to Karlsruhe and became an art teacher. During the time he worked at his teaching job, Erik was hired by an heiress to sketch and eventually tutor her children. Erik worked very well with these children and was eventually hired by many other families that were close to Anna and Sigmund Freud.<ref name=":0" />  This teaching extended into a small experimental school based in the house of Eva Rosenfeld.{{sfn|Young-Bruehl|1989|p=178}} During this period, which lasted until he was twenty-five years old, he continued to contend with questions about his father and competing ideas of ethnic, religious, and national identity.{{sfn|Hoare|2002|pp=8–9}}

==Psychoanalytic experience and training==
When Erikson was twenty-five, his friend Peter Blos invited him to Vienna to tutor art<ref name=":0" /> at the small Burlingham-Rosenfeld School for children whose affluent parents were undergoing psychoanalysis by [[Sigmund Freud]]'s daughter, [[Anna Freud]].{{sfn|Hoare|2002|p=9}} Anna noticed Erikson's sensitivity to children at the school and encouraged him to study psychoanalysis at the Vienna Psychoanalytic Institute, where prominent analysts [[August Aichhorn]], [[Heinz Hartmann]], and [[Paul Federn]] were among those who supervised his theoretical studies. He specialized in child analysis and underwent a training analysis with Anna Freud. [[Helene Deutsch]] and [[Edward Bibring]] supervised his initial treatment of an adult.{{sfn|Hoare|2002|p=9}} Simultaneously he studied the [[Montessori method]] of education, which focused on child development and sexual stages.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.erikson.edu/about/history/erik-erikson/|title=Erik H. Erikson|publisher=Erikson Institute|access-date=3 April 2016}}</ref>{{Failed verification|date=March 2017}} In 1933 he received his diploma from the Vienna Psychoanalytic Institute. This and his Montessori diploma were to be Erikson's only earned credentials for his life's work.

==United States==
In 1930 Erikson married [[Joan Erikson|Joan Mowat Serson]], a Canadian dancer and artist whom Erikson had met at a dress ball.<ref name="NYTObit"/>{{sfn|Stevens|2008|p=8}}<ref>{{cite web |editor-last=Schlein |editor-first=Stephen |url=http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/~hou00167 |title=Stephen Schlein Erik Erikson Papers |location=Cambridge |publisher=Harvard University |orig-date=2005 |year=2009 |access-date=11 March 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140312001038/http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/~hou00167 |archive-date=12 March 2014  }}</ref> During their marriage, Erikson converted to Christianity.<ref name="Thomas 1997">{{cite news |last=Thomas | first=Robert McG. Jr. |author-link=Robert McG. Thomas Jr. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/08/08/us/joan-erikson-is-dead-at-95-shaped-thought-on-life-cycles.html |title=Joan Erikson Is Dead at 95; Shaped Thought on Life Cycles |newspaper=The New York Times |date=8 August 1997 |access-date=30 August 2013}}</ref>{{sfnm |1a1=Engler |1y=2008 |1p=151 |2a1=Fadiman |2a2=Frager |2y=2002 |2p=208}} In 1933, with [[Adolf Hitler's rise to power]] in Germany, the burning of Freud's books in [[Berlin]], and the potential [[Nazi]] threat to Austria, the family left an impoverished Vienna with their two young sons and emigrated to [[Copenhagen]].<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Olsen|first1=Rodney D.|last2=Friedman|first2=Lawrence J.|date=December 2000|title=Identity's Architect: A Biography of Erik H. Erikson|journal=The Journal of American History|volume=87|issue=3|page=1112|doi=10.2307/2675414|jstor=2675414|issn=0021-8723}}</ref> Unable to regain [[Danish citizenship]] because of residence requirements, the family left for the United States, where citizenship would not be an issue.{{sfn|Hoare|2002|p=10}}

In the United States, Erikson became the first child psychoanalyst in [[Boston]] and held positions at [[Massachusetts General Hospital]], the Judge Baker Guidance Center, and at [[Harvard Medical School]] and Psychological Clinic. This was while he was establishing a singular reputation as a clinician. In 1936, Erikson left Harvard and joined the staff at [[Yale University]], where he worked at the Institute of Social Relations and taught at the [[Yale School of Medicine|medical school]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Erik Erikson {{!}} American psychoanalyst {{!}} Britannica|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Erik-Erikson|access-date=2021-12-04|website=www.britannica.com|language=en}}</ref>

Erikson continued to deepen his interest in areas beyond psychoanalysis and to explore connections between psychology and anthropology. He made important contacts with anthropologists such as [[Margaret Mead]], [[Gregory Bateson]], and [[Ruth Benedict]].{{sfn|Hoare|2002|p=11}} Erikson said his theory of the development of thought derived from his social and cultural studies. In 1938, he left Yale to study the [[Sioux]] tribe in [[South Dakota]] on their reservation. After his studies in South Dakota, he traveled to [[California]] to study the [[Yurok]] tribe. Erikson discovered differences between the children of the Sioux and Yurok tribes. This marked the beginning of Erikson's life passion of showing the importance of events in childhood and how society affects them.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0615.html|title=On this Day|date=2010|website=New York Times}}</ref>

In 1939 he left Yale, and the Eriksons moved to California, where Erik had been invited to join a team engaged in a longitudinal study of child development for the [[University of California]] at [[Berkeley, California|Berkeley]]'s Institute of Child Welfare. In addition, in San Francisco, he opened a private practice in child psychoanalysis.

While in California he was able to make his second study of Native American children when he joined anthropologist [[Alfred Kroeber]] on a field trip to Northern California to study the [[Yurok people|Yurok]].{{sfn|Stevens|1983|loc=ch. 1}}

In 1950, after publishing the book, ''[[Childhood and Society]]'', for which he is best known, Erikson left the University of California when California's [[Levering Act]] required professors there to sign [[loyalty oaths]].<ref>{{cite web |last=Boeree |first=C. George |author-link=C. George Boeree |year=2006 |orig-date=1997 |title=Erik Erikson, 1902–1994 |url=https://www.ship.edu/~cgboeree/erikson.html |location=Shippensburg, Pennsylvania |publisher=Shippensburg University |access-date=30 August 2013}}</ref> From 1951 to 1960 he worked and taught at the [[Austen Riggs Center]], a prominent psychiatric treatment facility in [[Stockbridge, Massachusetts]], where he worked with emotionally troubled young people. Another famous Stockbridge resident, [[Norman Rockwell]], became Erikson's patient and friend. During this time he also served as a visiting professor at the [[University of Pittsburgh]] where he worked with [[Benjamin Spock]] and [[Fred Rogers]] at Arsenal Nursery School of the [[Western Psychiatric Institute]].{{sfn|Friedman|2000|pp=253, 261–262}}

He returned to Harvard in the 1960s as a professor of human development and remained there until his retirement in 1970.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Erik Erikson|url=https://psychology.fas.harvard.edu/people/erik-erikson|access-date=2021-12-04|website=psychology.fas.harvard.edu|language=en}}</ref>  In 1973 the [[National Endowment for the Humanities]] selected Erikson for the [[Jefferson Lecture]], the United States' highest honor for achievement in the [[humanities]].  Erikson's lecture was titled ''Dimensions of a New Identity''.{{sfn|Erikson|1974}}<ref>{{cite news |last=Stade |first=George |date=19 May 1976 |title=Byways of Our National Character |url=https://www.nytimes.com/books/99/08/22/specials/erikson-dimensions.html |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=19 October 2017}}</ref>

==Theories of development and the ego==

Erikson is credited with being one of the originators of [[ego psychology]], which emphasized the role of the ego as being more than a servant of the [[Id, ego and super-ego#Id|id]]. Although Erikson accepted Freud's theory, he did not focus on the parent-child relationship and gave more importance to the role of the ego, particularly the person's progression as self.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Schaum's Outline of Psychiatric Nursing|last1=Bynum-Grant|first1=Daminga|last2=Travis-Dinkins|first2=Margaret|publisher=McGraw Hill Professional|year=2010|isbn=978-0-07-162364-3|location=New York|page=8}}</ref> According to Erikson, the environment in which a child lived was crucial to providing growth, adjustment, a source of self-awareness and identity. Erikson won a [[Pulitzer Prize]]<ref>{{cite web |title=1970 Pulitzer Prizes |url=http://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year/1970 |website=The Pulitzer Prizes |location=New York |publisher=Columbia University |access-date=20 October 2017}}</ref> and a US [[National Book Award]] in [[List of winners of the National Book Award#Science, Philosophy and Religion|category Philosophy and Religion]]<ref name=nba1970>{{cite web |title=National Book Awards – 1970 |url=https://www.nationalbook.org/awards-prizes/national-book-awards-1970 |location=New York |publisher=National Book Foundation |access-date=8 March 2012}}</ref> for ''[[Gandhi's Truth]]'' (1969),<ref name=":2">{{Cite book |last=Erikson |first=Erik H. |title=Gandhi's Truth: on the Origins of Militant Nonviolence|date=1969|publisher=Norton|oclc=868769096}}</ref> which focused more on his theory as applied to later phases in the life cycle.

In Erikson's discussion of development, he rarely mentioned a stage of development by age. In fact he referred to it as a ''prolonged adolescence'' which has led to further investigation into a period of development between adolescence and young adulthood called ''[[Emerging adulthood and early adulthood|emerging adulthood]]''.{{sfn|Arnett|2000}} Erikson's theory of development includes various psychosocial crises where each conflict builds off of the previous stages.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Erik Erikson|url=https://psychology.fas.harvard.edu/people/erik-erikson|access-date=2021-11-27|website=psychology.fas.harvard.edu|language=en}}</ref> The result of each conflict can have negative or positive impacts on a person's development, however, a negative outcome can be revisited and readdressed throughout the life span.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Vogel-Scibilia|first1=Suzanne E.|last2=McNulty|first2=Kathryn Cohan|last3=Baxter|first3=Beth|last4=Miller|first4=Steve|last5=Dine|first5=Max|last6=Frese|first6=Frederick J.|date=2009|title=The Recovery Process Utilizing Erikson's Stages of Human Development|journal=Community Mental Health Journal|volume=45|issue=6|pages=405–414|doi=10.1007/s10597-009-9189-4|issn=0010-3853|pmc=2791471|pmid=19533350}}</ref> On ego identity versus role confusion: ego identity enables each person to have a sense of individuality, or as Erikson would say, "Ego identity, then, in its subjective aspect, is the awareness of the fact that there is a self-sameness and continuity to the ego's synthesizing methods and a continuity of one's meaning for others".<ref>{{cite book|title=Childhood and Society|title-link=Childhood and Society|last=Erikson|first=Erik H.|publisher=W. W. Norton & Company|year=1963|edition=2nd|location=New York}} Cited in {{harvnb|Engler|2014|p=142}}.</ref> Role confusion, however, is, according to Barbara Engler, "the inability to conceive of oneself as a productive member of one's own society."{{sfn|Engler|2014|p=143}} This inability to conceive of oneself as a productive member is a great danger; it can occur during adolescence, when looking for an occupation.

==Theory of personality==
{{Main|Erikson's stages of psychosocial development}}
{{More citations needed|section|date=January 2016}}
The Erikson life-stages, in order of the eight stages in which they may be acquired, are listed below, as well as the "virtues" that Erikson has attached to these stages, (these virtues are underlined). The term "virtue" refers to favorable outcomes of each stage and is used in the context of Erikson's work as it is applied to medicine, meaning "potencies". These virtues are also interpreted to be the same as "strengths", which are considered inherent in the individual life cycle and in the sequence of generations.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Capps |first=Donald |title=Erik Erikson's Verbal Portraits: Luther, Gandhi, Einstein, Jesus |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |year=2014 |isbn=978-1-4422-4151-0 |location=Lanham, MD |page=106}}</ref> Erikson's research suggests that each individual must learn how to hold both extremes of each specific life-stage challenge in tension with one another, not rejecting one end of the tension or the other. Only when both extremes in a life-stage challenge are understood and accepted as both required and useful, can the optimal virtue for that stage surface. Thus, 'trust' and 'mis-trust' must both be understood and accepted, in order for realistic 'hope' to emerge as a viable solution at the first stage. Similarly, 'integrity' and 'despair' must both be understood and embraced, in order for actionable 'wisdom' to emerge as a viable solution at the last stage.

===1. Hope: basic trust vs. basic mistrust===
This stage covers the period of infancy, 0–1½ years old, which is the most fundamental stage of life, as this is the stage that all other ones build on.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://study.com/academy/lesson/basic-trust-mistrust-erik-eriksons-theory.html|access-date=2021-07-06|website=study.com|title=Basic Trust & Mistrust: Erik Erikson's Theory - Video & Lesson Transcript }}</ref> Whether the baby develops basic trust or basic mistrust is not merely a matter of nurture. It is multi-faceted and has strong social components. It depends on the quality of the maternal relationship.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Rotenberg|first=Ken J.|date=1995-12-01|title=The Socialisation of Trust: Parents' and Children's Interpersonal Trust|journal=International Journal of Behavioral Development|language=en|volume=18|issue=4|pages=713–726|doi=10.1177/016502549501800408|s2cid=145704944|issn=0165-0254}}</ref> The mother carries out and reflects her inner perceptions of trustworthiness, a sense of personal meaning, etc. on the child. An important part of this stage is providing stable and constant care of the infant. This helps the child develop trust that can transition into relationships other than parental. Additionally, children develop trust in others to support them.<ref name=":1">{{Cite journal|url=https://www.simplypsychology.org/Erik-Erikson.html|title=Erik Erikson|last=McLeod|first=Saul|date=2017|website=Simply Psychology}}</ref> If successful in this, the baby develops a sense of trust, which "forms the basis in the child for a sense of identity." Failure to develop this trust will result in a feeling of fear and a sense that the world is inconsistent and unpredictable.

===2. Will: autonomy vs. shame===
This stage covers early childhood around 1½–3 years old and introduces the concept of [[autonomy]] vs. shame and doubt. The child begins to discover the beginnings of their independence, and parents must facilitate the child's sense of doing basic tasks "all by themselves."  Discouragement can lead to the child doubting their efficacy.  During this stage the child is usually trying to master toilet training.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Wijoyo|first1=Eriyono Budi|last2=Mustikasari|first2=Mustikasari|date=2020-05-23|title=Psychosocial Aspects of Erickson Model on Toileting Behavior For Toddler Ages: Case Study|url=https://jurnal.umt.ac.id/index.php/jik/article/view/1485|journal=Jurnal Ilmiah Keperawatan Indonesia|language=en|volume=3|issue=1|pages=1–9|doi=10.31000/jiki.v3i1.1485|issn=2580-3077|doi-access=free}}</ref> Additionally, the child discovers their talents or abilities, and it is important to ensure the child is able to explore those activities. Erikson states it is essential to allow the children freedom in exploration but also create an environment welcoming of failures. Therefore, the parent should not punish or reprimand the child for failing at the task. Shame and doubt occurs when the child feels incompetent in ability to complete tasks and survive. Will is achieved with success of this stage. Children successful in this stage will have "self-control without a loss of [[self-esteem]]."<ref name=":1" />

===3. Purpose: initiative vs. guilt===
This stage covers preschool children from ages three to five. Does the child have the ability to do things on their own, such as dress themselves? Children in this stage are interacting with peers, and creating their own games and activities. They practice independence and start to make their own decisions.<ref>{{Citation|last1=Hurrell|first1=Kristen|title=Initiative Versus Guilt|date=2020|encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences|pages=2257–2259|editor-last=Zeigler-Hill|editor-first=Virgil|place=Cham|publisher=Springer International Publishing|language=en|doi=10.1007/978-3-319-24612-3_597|isbn=978-3-319-24612-3|last2=Stack|first2=Margaret|s2cid=241069450|editor2-last=Shackelford|editor2-first=Todd K.}}</ref> If allowed to make these decisions, a child will develop confidence in their ability to lead others. If the child is not allowed to make certain decisions, then a sense of guilt develops. Guilt in this stage is characterized by a sense of being a burden to others, and the child will therefore usually present themselves as a follower as they lack the confidence to do otherwise.<ref>{{Cite web|title=[PDF] Erik Erikson {{!}} Psychosocial Stages - Simply Psychology - Free Download PDF|url=https://docuri.com/download/erik-erikson-psychosocial-stages-simply-psychology_59c1e23ff581710b286a64c6_pdf|access-date=2021-06-18|website=docuri.com|language=en}}</ref> Additionally, the child is asking many questions to build knowledge of the world. If the questions earn responses that are critical and condescending, the child will also develop feelings of guilt. Success in this stage leads to the virtue of purpose, which is the normal balance between the two extremes.<ref name=":1" />

===4. Competence: industry vs. inferiority===
This area coincides with the "latency" period of psychoanalysis and covers school age children before adolescence. Children compare their self worth to others around them. Friends can have a significant impact on the growth of the child.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Erikson |first=Erik H. |title=The life cycle completed |date=1997 |publisher=W.W. Norton |others=Joan M. Erikson |isbn=0-393-03934-X |edition=Extended version |location=New York |oclc=35198742}}</ref> The child can recognize major disparities in personal abilities relative to other children. Erikson places some emphasis on the teacher, who should ensure that children do not feel inferior. During this stage the child's friend group increases in importance in their life. Often during this stage the child will try to prove competency with things rewarded in society, and also develop satisfaction with their abilities. Encouraging the child increases feelings of adequacy and competency in ability to reach goals. Restriction from teachers or parents leads to doubt, questioning, and reluctance in abilities and therefore may not reach full capabilities. Competence, the virtue of this stage, is developed when a healthy balance between the two extremes is reached.<ref name=":1" />

===5. Fidelity: identity vs. role confusion===
This section deals with adolescence, meaning those between twelve and eighteen years old. This occurs when we start to question ourselves and ask questions relevant to who we are and what we want to accomplish. Who am I, how do I fit in? Where am I going in life? The adolescent is exploring and seeking for their own unique identity. This is done by looking at personal beliefs, goals, and values. The morality of the individual is also explored and developed.<ref name=":1" /> Erikson believes that if the parents allow the child to explore, they will determine their own identity. If, however, the parents continually push them to conform to their views, the teen will face identity confusion. The teen is also looking towards the future in terms of employment, relationships, and families. Learning the roles they provide in society is essential since the teen begins to develop the desire to fit into society. Fidelity is characterized by the ability to commit to others and acceptance of others even with differences. Identity crisis is the result of role confusion and can cause the adolescent to try out different lifestyles.<ref name=":1" />

===6. Love: intimacy vs. isolation===
This is the first stage of adult development. This development usually happens during young adulthood, which is between the ages of 18 and 40. This stage marks a transition from just thinking about ourselves to thinking about other people in the world. We are social creatures and as a result need to be with other people and form relationships with them. Dating, marriage, family and friendships are important during this stage in their life. This is due to the increase in the growth of intimate relationships with others.<ref name=":1" />

Ego development earlier in life (middle adolescence) is a strong predictor of how well intimacy for romantic relationships will transpire in emerging adulthood.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Beyers|first1=Wim|last2=Seiffge-Krenke|first2=Inge|date=2010-03-02|title=Does Identity Precede Intimacy? Testing Erikson's Theory on Romantic Development in Emerging Adults of the 21st Century|journal=Journal of Adolescent Research|volume=25|issue=3|pages=387–415|doi=10.1177/0743558410361370|hdl=1854/LU-941691|s2cid=44281123|issn=0743-5584|url=https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/941691 |hdl-access=free}}</ref> By successfully forming loving relationships with other people, individuals are able to experience love and intimacy. They also feel safety, care, and commitment in these relationships.<ref name=":1" /> Furthermore, if individuals are able to successfully resolve the crisis of intimacy versus isolation, they are able to achieve the virtue of love.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Dimensions of Human Behavior: The Changing Life Course|last=Hutchison|first=Elizabeth|publisher=SAGE Publications|year=2007|isbn=978-1-4129-4126-6|location=Thousand Oaks, CA|page=290}}</ref> Those who fail to form lasting relationships may feel isolated and alone.

===7. Care: generativity vs. stagnation===
The second stage of adulthood happens between the ages of 40 and 65. During this time people are normally settled in their lives and know what is important to them. A person is either making progress in their career or treading lightly in their career and unsure if this is what they want to do for the rest of their working life.  Also during this time, a person may be raising their children. If they are a parent, then they are reevaluating their life roles.{{sfn|Slater|2003}} This is one way of contributing to society along with productivity at work and involvement in community activities and organizations.<ref name=":1" /> Individuals who exercise the concept of generativity believe in the next generation and seek to nurture them in creative ways through practices such as parenting, teaching, and mentoring.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Van De Water|first1=Donna A.|last2=McAdams|first2=Dan P.|date=1989|title=Generativity and Erikson's "belief in the species"|journal=Journal of Research in Personality|volume=23|issue=4|pages=435–449|doi=10.1016/0092-6566(89)90013-5|issn=0092-6566}}</ref> Having a sense of generativity can be considered significant for both the individual and the society, exemplifying their roles as effective parents, leaders for organizations, etc.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Slater|first=Charles L.|year=2003|title=Generativity versus stagnation: An elaboration of Erikson's adult stage of human development|journal=Journal of Adult Development|volume=10|issue=1|pages=53–65|doi=10.1023/a:1020790820868|s2cid=140501567|issn=1068-0667}}</ref> If a person is not comfortable with the way their life is progressing, they're usually regretful about the decisions that they have made in the past and feel a sense of uselessness.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Capps|first=Donald|date=2004-09-01|title=The Decades of Life: Relocating Erikson's Stages|journal=Pastoral Psychology|language=en|volume=53|issue=1|pages=3–32|doi=10.1023/B:PASP.0000039322.53775.2b|s2cid=144519449|issn=1573-6679}}</ref>

===8. Wisdom: ego integrity vs. despair===
This stage affects the age group of 65 and on. During this time an individual has reached the last chapter in their life and retirement is approaching or has already taken place. Individuals in this stage must learn to accept the course of their life or they will look back on it with despair.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Westerhof|first1=Gerben J.|last2=Bohlmeijer|first2=Ernst T.|last3=McAdams|first3=Dan P.|date=2017-05-01|title=The Relation of Ego Integrity and Despair to Personality Traits and Mental Health|journal=The Journals of Gerontology: Series B|volume=72|issue=3|pages=400–407|doi=10.1093/geronb/gbv062|pmid=26443014|issn=1079-5014|doi-access=free}}</ref> Ego-integrity means the acceptance of life in its fullness: the victories and the defeats, what was accomplished and what was not accomplished. Wisdom is the result of successfully accomplishing this final developmental task. Wisdom is defined as "informed and detached concern for life itself in the face of death itself."{{sfn|Erikson|Erikson|1997|p=61}} Having a guilty conscience about the past or failing to accomplish important goals will eventually lead to depression and hopelessness. Achieving the virtue of the stage involves the feeling of living a successful life.<ref name=":1" />

===Ninth stage===
For the '''Ninth Stage''' see [[Erikson's stages of psychosocial development#Ninth stage|Erikson's stages of psychosocial development § Ninth Stage]].

== Psychology of religion ==
Psychoanalytic writers have always engaged in nonclinical interpretation of cultural phenomena such as art, [[religion]], and historical movements. Erik Erikson gave such a strong contribution that his work was well received by students of religion and spurred various secondary literature.<ref name=":3">{{Cite book|last=Wulff|first=David M.|title=Psychology of Religion: Classic and Contemporary Views|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|year=1991|isbn=0-471-50236-7|location=New York|pages=369–398}}</ref>

Erikson's psychology of religion begins with an acknowledgement of how religious tradition can have an interplay with a child's basic sense of trust or mistrust.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Erikson|first=Erik H.|title=Identity and the Life Cycle|publisher=W. W. Norton|year=1980|isbn=0-393-00949-1|location=New York|page=64}}</ref> With regard to Erikson's theory of personality as expressed in his eight stages of the life cycle, each with their different tasks to master, each also included a corresponding virtue, as mentioned above, which form a taxonomy for religious and ethical life. Erikson extends this construct by emphasizing that human individual and social life is characterized by ritualization, "an agreed-upon interplay between at least two persons who repeat it at meaningful intervals and in recurring contexts." Such [[ritual]]ization involves careful attentiveness to what can be called ceremonial forms and details, higher [[symbol]]ic meanings, active engagement of participants, and a feeling of absolute necessity.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Erikson|first=Erik H.|date=1966|title=Ontogeny of Ritualization in Man|journal= Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B|volume=251 |issue=772|pages=337–349|doi=10.1098/rstb.1966.0019|bibcode=1966RSPTB.251..337E|s2cid=83998401}}</ref>  Each life cycle stage includes its own ritualization with a corresponding ritualism: [[numinous]] vs. idolism, judicious vs. legalism, dramatic vs. impersonation, formal vs. formalism, [[ideological]] vs. totalism, affiliative vs. [[elitism]], generational vs. authoritism, and integral vs. [[dogmatism]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Erikson|first=Erik H.|title=The Life Cycle Completed: A Review|publisher=W. W. Norton|year=1982|isbn=0-393-30229-6|location=New York|pages=32–33}}</ref>

Perhaps Erikson's best-known contributions to the [[psychology of religion]] were his book length psychobiographies, ''Young Man Luther: A Study in Psychoanalysis and History'', on [[Martin Luther]], and ''Gandhi's Truth'', on [[Mahatma Gandhi]], for which he remarkably won the [[Pulitzer Prize]] and the [[National Book Award]]. Both books attempt to show how childhood development and parental influence, social and cultural context, and even political crises form a confluence with personal identity. These studies demonstrate how each influential person discovered mastery, both individually and socially, in what Erikson would call the historical moment. Individuals like Luther or Gandhi were what Erikson called a Homo Religiosus, individuals for whom the final life cycle challenge of integrity vs. despair is a lifelong crisis, and they become gifted innovators whose own psychological cure becomes an ideological breakthrough for their time.<ref name=":3" />

==Personal life==
Erikson married Canadian-born American dancer and artist [[Joan Erikson]] (née Sarah Lucretia Serson) in 1930 and they remained together until his death.<ref name="Thomas 1997"/>

The Eriksons had four children: [[Kai T. Erikson]], Jon Erikson, Sue Erikson Bloland, and Neil Erikson. His eldest son, Kai T. Erikson, was an American [[sociologist]]. Their daughter, Sue, "an integrative psychotherapist and psychoanalyst",<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Erikson Bloland |first=Sue |year=2015 |title=Show Me a Hero and I Will Write You a Tragedy |url=http://www.newphilosopher.com/articles/show-me-a-hero-and-i-will-write-you-a-tragedy/ |interviewer-last=Boag |interviewer-first=Zan |magazine=New Philosopher |issue=10 |issn=2201-7151 |access-date=20 October 2017 |archive-date=20 October 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171020135506/http://www.newphilosopher.com/articles/show-me-a-hero-and-i-will-write-you-a-tragedy/  }}</ref> described her father as plagued by "lifelong feelings of personal inadequacy".<ref>{{cite web |last=Leiter |first=Robert |date=29 November 1999 |title=The Corrosive Nature of Fame |url=http://www.jewishworldreview.com/on/media112999.asp |work=Jewish World Review |access-date=20 October 2017}}</ref> He thought that by combining resources with his wife, he could "achieve the recognition" that might produce a feeling of adequacy.{{sfn|Erikson Bloland|2005|pp=67}}

Erikson died on 12 May 1994 in Harwich, Massachusetts. He is buried in the First Congregational Church Cemetery in Harwich.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=o1UYAAAAIAAJ&q=erik+erikson+First+Congregational+Church ''Scribner's Encyclopedia of American Lives'']</ref>

==Bibliography==

===Major works===
* ''[[Childhood and Society]]'' (1950)
* ''[[Young Man Luther|Young Man Luther: A Study in Psychoanalysis and History]]'' (1958)
* ''Insight and Responsibility'' (1966)<ref>{{Cite book|last=Erikson|first=Erik H. |title=Insight and responsibility: lectures on the ethical implications of psychoanalytic insight|date=1994|publisher=W.W. Norton|isbn=0-393-31214-3|edition=Norton pbk. |location=New York|oclc=31741383}}</ref>
* ''Insight and freedom'' (1968)
* ''Identity: Youth and Crisis'' (1968)<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Kemph|first=John P.|date=1969|title=Erik H. Erikson. Identity, youth and crisis. New York: W. W. Norton Company, 1968 |journal=Behavioral Science|language=en|volume=14|issue=2|pages=154–159|doi=10.1002/bs.3830140209|issn=1099-1743}}</ref>
* ''Gandhi's truth on the origins of militant nonviolence'' (1969)
* ''[[Gandhi's Truth|Gandhi's Truth: On the Origins of Militant Nonviolence]]'' (1969)<ref name=":2" />
* ''The Twentieth-century sciences'' (1972)
* ''In search of common ground'' (1973)
* ''Life History and the Historical Moment'' (1975)<ref>{{Cite book|last=Erikson|first=Erik H. |title=Life history and the historical moment|date=1975|publisher=Norton|isbn=0-393-01103-8|edition=First |location=New York|oclc=1055523}}</ref>
* ''Toys and Reasons: Stages in the Ritualization of Experience'' (1977)<ref>{{Cite book |author=Erikson, Erik H. |title=Toys and reasons: stages in the ritualization of experience|date=1978|publisher=Boyars |isbn=0-7145-2629-0|oclc=315744364}}</ref>
* ''Adulthood'' (edited book, 1978)<ref>{{Cite book |title=Adulthood: essays|date=1978|publisher=Norton|author=Erik H. Erikson|isbn=0-393-01165-8|edition=1st|location=New York|oclc=3414835}}</ref>
* ''Vital Involvement in Old Age'' (with J. M. Erikson and H. Kivnick, 1986)<ref>{{Cite book|last=Erikson|first=Erik H. |url = https://archive.org/details/vitalinvolvement0000erik |title=Vital involvement in old age|date=1986|publisher=Norton|author2=Joan M. Erikson |author3=Helen Q. Kivnick|isbn=0-393-02359-1|edition=1st|location=New York|oclc=13821644}}</ref>
* {{cite book
|last1=Erikson
|first1=Erik H.
|last2=Erikson
|first2=Joan M.
|author2-link=Joan Erikson
|year=1997
|title=The Life Cycle Completed
|edition=extended
|location=New York
|publisher=W.{{nbsp}}W. Norton & Company
|publication-date=1998
|isbn=978-0-393-34743-2
}}

===Collections===
* ''Identity and the Life Cycle. Selected Papers'' (1959)<ref>{{Cite book |author=Erikson, Erik H. |title=Identity and the life cycle: selected papers|date=1959|publisher=International Universities Press|oclc=1016208029}}</ref>
* ''"A Way of Looking at Things – Selected Papers from 1930 to 1980, Erik H. Erikson"'' ed. by S. Schlein, W. W. Norton & Co, New York, (1995)

==See also==
* [[Erikson Institute]]

==References==
===Citations===
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===Works cited===
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* {{cite journal
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|author-link=Jeffrey Arnett
|year=2000
|journal=American Psychologist
|volume=55
|issue=5
|pages=469–480
|issn=1935-990X
|doi=10.1037/0003-066x.55.5.469
|pmid=10842426
|citeseerx=10.1.1.462.7685
}}
* {{cite book
|last=Burston
|first=Daniel
|year=2007
|title=Erik Erikson and the American Psyche: Ego, Ethics, and Evolution
|location=Lanham, Maryland
|publisher=Jason Aronson
|isbn=978-0-7657-0495-5
}}
* {{cite book
|last=Eckenfels
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|title=Doctors Serving People: Restoring Humanism to Medicine through Student Community Service
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* {{cite book
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* {{cite book
|last=Engler
|first=Barbara
|author-mask={{long dash}}
|year=2014
|title=Personality Theories: An Introduction
|edition=9th
|location=Belmont, California
|publisher=Wadsworth Publishing
|isbn=978-1-285-08880-8
}}
* {{cite book
|last=Erikson
|first=Erik H.
|year=1974
|title=Dimensions of a New Identity
|url=https://archive.org/details/dimensionsofnewi0000erik
|series=Jefferson Lectures in the Humanities
|location=New York
|publisher=W.{{nbsp}}W. Norton & Company
|isbn=978-0-393-00923-1
}}
* {{cite book
|last=Erikson Bloland
|first=Sue
|year=2005
|title=In the Shadow of Fame: A Memoir by the Daughter of Erik H. Erikson
|location=New York
|publisher=Viking Press
|isbn=978-0-670-03374-4
}}
* {{cite book
|last1=Fadiman
|first1=James
|author1-link=James Fadiman
|last2=Frager
|first2=Robert
|author2-link=Robert Frager
|year=2002
|title=Personality and Personal Growth
|edition=5th
|location=Upper Saddle River, New Jersey
|publisher=Prentice Hall
|isbn=978-0-13-040961-4
}}
* {{cite book
|last=Friedman
|first=Lawrence Jacob
|year=2000
|title=Identity's Architect: A Biography of Erik H. Erikson
|location=Cambridge, Massachusetts
|publisher=Harvard University Press
|isbn=978-0-674-00437-5
}}
* {{cite journal
|last1=Haggbloom
|first1=Steven J.
|last2=Warnick
|first2=Renee
|last3=Warnick
|first3=Jason E.
|last4=Jones
|first4=Vinessa K.
|last5=Yarbrough
|first5=Gary L.
|last6=Russell
|first6=Tenea M.
|last7=Borecky
|first7=Chris M.
|last8=McGahhey
|first8=Reagan
|last9=Powell
|first9=John L. III
|last10=Beavers
|first10=Jamie
|last11=Monte
|first11=Emmanuelle
|year=2002
|title=The 100 Most Eminent Psychologists of the 20th Century
|url=https://www.apa.org/monitor/julaug02/eminent.aspx
|journal=Review of General Psychology
|volume=6
|issue=2
|pages=139–152
|issn=1939-1552
|doi=10.1037/1089-2680.6.2.139
|s2cid=145668721
|access-date=20 October 2017
|ref={{sfnref|Haggbloom et al.|2002}}
}}
* {{cite journal
|last=Heathcoate
|first=Ann
|year=2010
|title=Eric Berne's Development of Ego State Theory: Where Did It All Begin and Who Influenced Him?
|url=https://theworsleycentre.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/15-taj-jul-oct-heathcote-final.pdf
|journal=Transactional Analysis Journal
|volume=40
|issue=3–4
|pages=254–260
|issn=2329-5244
|doi=10.1177/036215371004000310
|s2cid=51749399
|access-date=20 October 2017
|archive-date=2 August 2016
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160802171352/https://theworsleycentre.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/15-taj-jul-oct-heathcote-final.pdf
|url-status=usurped
}}
* {{cite book
|last=Hoare
|first=Carol Hren
|year=2002
|title=Erikson on Development in Adulthood: New Insights from the Unpublished Papers
|location=New York
|publisher=Oxford University Press
|isbn=978-0-19-513175-8
}}
* {{cite web
|last1=Osmer
|first1=Richard
|last2=Bridgers
|first2=Lynn
|year=2018
|orig-date=2015
|title=James Fowler
|url=https://www.biola.edu/talbot/ce20/database/james-fowler
|work=Christian Educators of the 20th Century
|location=La Mirada, California
|publisher=Biola University
|access-date=August 27, 2020
}}
* {{cite encyclopedia
|last=Paranjpe
|first=Anand C.
|year=2005
|title=Erikson, Erik Homburger
|editor-last=Shook
|editor-first=John R.
|encyclopedia=The Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers
|volume=2
|location=Bristol, England
|publisher=Thoemmes Continuum
|pages=734–737
|isbn=978-1-84371-037-0
|doi=10.1093/acref/9780199754663.001.0001
}}
* {{cite book
|last=Stevens
|first=Richard
|year=1983
|title=Erik Erikson: An Introduction
|location=New York
|publisher=St. Martin's Press
|isbn=978-0-312-25812-2
|url-access=registration
|url=https://archive.org/details/erikeriksonintro00stev
}}
* {{cite book
|last=Stevens
|first=Richard
|author-mask={{long dash}}
|year=2008
|title=Erik H. Erikson: Explorer of Identity and the Life Cycle
|location=Basingstoke, England
|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan
|isbn=978-1-4039-9986-3
}}
* {{cite book |last=Young-Bruehl |first=Elisabeth |date=1989 |title=Anna Freud |location=New York |publisher=Summit Books |isbn=9780333455265}}
{{refend}}

==Further reading==
{{refbegin|35em|indent=yes}}
* {{cite journal
|last=Andersen
|first=D. C.
|year=1993
|title=Beyond Rumor and Reductionism: A Textual Dialogue with Erik H. Erikson
|volume=22
|issue=1
|journal=The Psychohistory Review
|pages=35–68
|issn=0363-891X
|pmid=11623368
}}
* {{cite journal
|last1=Bondurant
|first1=Joan V.
|author1-link=Joan Bondurant
|last2=Fisher
|first2=Margaret W.
|last3=Sutherland
|first3=J. D.
|author3-link=John Derg Sutherland
|year=1971
|title=Gandhi: A Psychoanalytic View
|department=Review of ''Gandhi's Truth: On the Origins of Militant Nonviolence'' by Erikson, Erik H.
|volume=76
|issue=4
|journal=The American Historical Review
|pages=1104–1115
|issn=0002-8762
|jstor=1849243
|doi=10.2307/1849243
}}
* {{cite journal
|last=Brenman-Gibson
|first=Margaret
|author-link = Margaret Brenman-Gibson
|year=1997
|title=The Legacy of Erik Hamburger Erikson
|journal=Psychoanalytic Review
|volume=84
|issue=3
|pages=329–335
|issn=0033-2836
|pmid=9279928
}}
* {{cite book
|editor1-last=Capps
|editor1-first=Donald
|editor1-link=Donald Eric Capps
|editor2-last=Capps
|editor2-first=Walter H.
|editor2-link=Walter Capps
|editor3-last=Bradford
|editor3-first=M. Gerald
|year=1977
|title=Encounter with Erikson: Historical Interpretation and Religious Biography
|location=Missoula, Montana
|publisher=Scholars Press
}}
* {{cite journal
|last=Carney
|first=J. E.
|publication-date=1993
|year=1993
|title='Is It Really So Terrible Her?': Karl Menninger's Pursuit of Erik Erikson
|volume=22
|issue=1
|journal=The Psychohistory Review
|pages=119–153
|issn=0363-891X
|pmid=11623367
}}
* {{cite book
|last=Coles
|first=Robert
|year=1970
|title=Erik H. Erikson: The Growth of His Work
|url=https://archive.org/details/erikheriksongrow00cole
|url-access=registration
|location=Boston
|publisher=Little, Brown and Company
|oclc=898775065
}}
* {{cite journal
|last1=Coles
|first1=Robert
|last2=Fitzpatrick
|first2=J. J.
|year=1976
|title=The Writings of Erik H. Erikson
|journal=The Psychohistory Review
|volume=5
|issue=3
|pages=42–46
|issn=0363-891X
|pmid=11615801
}}
* {{cite journal
|last=Crunden
|first=Robert M.
|author-link=Robert Morse Crunden
|year=1973
|title=Freud, Erikson, and the Historian: A Bibliographical Survey
|journal=Canadian Review of American Studies
|volume=4
|issue=1
|pages=48–64
|issn=0007-7720
|doi=10.3138/CRAS-004-01-04
|pmid=11634791
|s2cid=35564701
}}
* {{cite journal
|last=Douvan
|first=Elizabeth
|author-link=Elizabeth R. Douvan
|year=1997
|title=Erik Erikson: Critical Times, Critical Theory
|journal=Child Psychiatry and Human Development
|volume=28
|issue=1
|pages=15–21
|issn=1573-3327
|doi=10.1023/A:1025188901554
|pmid=9256525
|hdl=2027.42/43955
|s2cid=22049620
|url=https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/43955/1/10578_2004_Article_424474.pdf
|hdl-access=free
}}
* {{cite journal
|last=Eagle
|first=Morris
|year=1997
|title=Contributions of Erik Erikson
|journal=Psychoanalytic Review
|volume=84
|issue=3
|pages=337–347
|issn=0033-2836
|pmid=9279929
}}
* {{cite encyclopedia
|last=Elms
|first=Alan C.
|year=2008
|title=Erikson, Erik Homburger
|editor-last=Koertge
|editor-first=Noretta
|editor-link=Noretta Koertge
|encyclopedia=[[New Dictionary of Scientific Biography]]
|volume=2
|location=Farmington Hills, Michigan
|publisher=Gale Group
|pages=406–412
|isbn=978-0-684-31322-1
}}
* {{cite book
|last=Evans
|first=Richard I.
|year=1967
|title=Dialogue with Erik Erikson
|  url = https://archive.org/details/dialoguewitherik0000unse
|location=New York
| oclc = 4930459
| series = Dialogues with notable contributors to personality theory
|publisher=E. P. Dutton & Co.
}}
* {{cite journal
|last=Fitzpatrick
|first=J. J.
|year=1976
|title=Erik H. Erikson and Psychohistory
|journal=Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic
|volume=40
|issue=4
|pages=295–314
|issn=0025-9284
|pmid=791417
}}
* {{cite journal
|last=Goethals
|first=George W.
|year=1976
|title=The Evolution of Sexual and Genital Intimacy: A Comparison of the Views of Erik H. Erikson and Harry Stack Sullivan
|journal=The Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis
|volume=4
|issue=4
|pages=529–544
|issn=1546-0371
|doi=10.1521/jaap.1.1976.4.4.529
|pmid=799636
}}
* {{cite journal
|last=Hoffman
|first=L. E.
|year=1993
|title=Erikson on Hitler: The Origins of 'Hitler's Imagery and German Youth'
|journal=The Psychohistory Review
|volume=22
|issue=1
|pages=69–86
|issn=0363-891X
|pmid=11623369
}}
* {{cite journal
|last=Masson
|first=J. L.
|author-link=Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
|year=1974
|title=India and the Unconscious: Erik Erikson on Gandhi
|journal=The International Journal of Psycho-Analysis
|volume=55
|issue=4
|pages=519–529
|issn=1745-8315
|pmid=4616017
}}
* {{cite book
|last=Roazen
|first=Paul
|author-link=Paul Roazen
|year=1976
|title=Erik H. Erikson: The Power and Limits of a Vision
|url=https://archive.org/details/erikeriksonpower00roaz
|url-access=registration
|location=New York
|publisher=Free Press
}}
* {{cite journal
|last=Roazen
|first=Paul
|author-link=Paul Roazen
|author-mask={{long dash}}
|year=1993
|title=Erik H. Erikson as a Teacher
|journal=The Psychohistory Review
|volume=22
|issue=1
|pages=101–117
|issn=0363-891X
|pmid=11623366
}}
* {{cite journal
|last=Schnell
|first=R. L.
|year=1980
|title=Contributions to Psychohistory: IV. Individual Experience in Historiography and Psychoanalysis: Significance of Erik Erikson and Robert Coles
|journal=Psychological Reports
|volume=46
|issue=2
|pages=591–612
|issn=0033-2941
|doi=10.2466/pr0.1980.46.2.591
|pmid=6992185
|s2cid=35340912
}}
* {{cite journal
|last=Strozier
|first=Charles B.
|year=1976
|title=Disciplined Subjectivity and the Psychohistorian: A Critical Look at the Work of Erik H. Erikson
|journal=The Psychohistory Review
|volume=5
|issue=3
|pages=28–31
|issn=0363-891X
|pmid=11615797
}}
* {{cite book
|editor1-last=Wallerstein
|editor1-first=Robert S.
|editor1-link=Robert S. Wallerstein
|editor2-last=Goldberger
|editor2-first=Leo
|editor2-link=Leo Goldberger
|year=1998
|title=Ideas and Identities: The Life and Work of Erik Erikson
|location=Madison, Connecticut
|publisher=International Universities Press
|isbn=978-0-8236-2445-4
}}
* {{cite journal
|last=Weiner
|first=M. B.
|year=1979
|title=Caring for the Elderly. Psychological Aging: Aspects of Normal Personality and Development in Old Age. Part II. Erik Erikson: Resolutions of Psychosocial Tasks
|journal=The Journal of Nursing Care
|volume=12
|issue=5
|pages=27–28
|pmid=374748
}}
* {{cite book
|last=Welchman
|first=Kit
|year=2000
|title=Erik Erikson: His Life, Work, and Significance
|location=Buckingham, England
|publisher=Open University Press
|isbn=978-0-335-20157-0
}}
* {{cite journal
|last=Wurgaft
|first=Lewis D.
|year=1976
|title=Erik Erikson: From Luther to Gandhi
|journal=Psychoanalytic Review
|volume=63
|issue=2
|pages=209–233
|issn=0033-2836
|pmid=788015
}}
* {{cite book
|last=Zock
|first=Hetty
|year=2004
|title=A Psychology of Ultimate Concern: Erik H. Erikson's Contribution to the Psychology of Religion
|edition=2nd
|location=Amsterdam
|publisher=Rodopi
|isbn=978-90-5183-180-1
}}
{{refend}}

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