Erik Erikson, a psychoanalyst and developmental psychologist, helped reshape how we think about human development. In his theory of psychosocial development, Erikson framed development as a series ...

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Autonomy versus shame and doubt is the second stage of Erik Erikson’s stages of psychosocial development. This stage occurs between the age of 18 months and around age 2 or 3 years. According to ...

As the psychologist Erik Erikson noted in his book Escape from Freedom, people often run from the burden of liberty. But heirut – liberty, true freedom – is a spiritual labor. It is the ...

Erik Erikson’s psychosocial theory (1968), suggests teenagers go through a stage of ‘crisis’, where they explore and form their sense of self and identity. This stage can (and often does ...

Leif Erikson (also spelled Ericsson, or Eiriksson) was the second of three sons of Erik the Red, who established a settlement in Greenland after he was exiled from Iceland. Leif Erikson's story ...