Erik Erikson

Erik Homburger Erikson was born on June 15, 1902 and pasted away May 12, 1994. He was a Danish-German-American developmental psychologist and psychoanalyst known for his theory on social development of human beings. He is most famous for the phrase "identity crisis". Erik Erikson believed that every human being goes through a certain number of stages to reach his or her full development, theorizing eight stages. He graduated from the Vienna Psychoanalytic Institute in 1933 and moved to the U. S. becoming the first child psychoanalyst in Boston. In 1936, Erikson accepted a position at Yale University, where he worked at the Institute of Human Relations and taught at the Medical School. After spending a year observing children on a Sioux reservation in South Dakota, he joined the faculty of the University of California at Berkeley, where he was affiliated with the Institute of Child Welfare. For more information on Erik Erikson visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Erikson.