Erik Erikson

Also known as Erik Homburger Erikson, Erik H. Erikson

American German-born psychoanalyst & essayist

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Erik Erikson was a German-born American psychoanalyst and essayist who developed influential theories about human psychological development. His work matters because it shaped how we understand how people grow and change throughout their entire lives, from childhood through old age.

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Works: 10

Top works

Herrn Thomas Manns neueste Wandlung
Step-By-Step Stained Glass
Childhood and Society by Erik Erikson (1963-04-01)
Childhood and Society
In Search of Common Ground

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Gender: Male
Origin: Poá

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GROMACS: High performance molecular simulations through multi-level parallelism from laptops to supercomputers
· 2015 · cited 25,341x
GROMACS: Fast, flexible, and free
· 2005 · cited 18,117x
A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,786x
The Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology (STROBE) statement: guidelines for reporting observational studies
· 2007 · cited 17,548x
The Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology (STROBE) statement: guidelines for reporting observational studies
· 2008 · cited 15,248x

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Quotes

“Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.”
“Children love and want to be loved and they very much prefer the joy of accomplishment to the triumph of hateful failure. Do not mistake a child for his symptom.”
“When established identities become outworn or unfinished ones threaten to remain incomplete, special crises compel men to wage holy wars, by the cruelest means, against those who seem to question or threaten their unsafe ideological bases.”
“Doubt is the brother of shame.”
“Someday, maybe, there will exist a well-informed, well considered and yet fervent public conviction that the most deadly of all possible sins is the mutilation of a child’s spirit; for such mutilation undercuts the life principle of trust, without which every human act, may it feel ever so good and seem ever so right is prone to perversion by destructive forms of conscientiousness.”
“All world-images are apt to become corrupt when left to ecclesiastic bureaucracies. But this does not make the formation of world-images expendable. And I can only repeat that we deny the remnants of old-world images at our own risk, because we do not overcome them by declaring them — with all the righteousness of skepticism — something of a secret sin. They are not less powerful for being denied.”

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Encyclopedic overview

Erik Homburger Erikson (born Erik Salomonsen; 15 June 1902 – 12 May 1994) was a German-American child psychoanalyst and visual artist known for his 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, and Yale. A Review of General Psychology survey, published in 2002, ranked Erikson as the 12th most eminent psychologist of the 20th century.

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