Author | Erik Erikson |
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Country | United States |
Language | English |
Subject | Childhood |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Co |
Publication date | 1950 |
Media type | Print ( Hardcover and Paperback) |
Pages | 445 |
ISBN | 039331068X |
Childhood and Society is a 1950 book about the social significance of childhood by the psychoanalyst Erik H. Erikson. [1]
Erikson discusses the social significance of childhood, [1] introducing ideas such as the eight stages of psychosocial development and the concept of an " identity crisis". [2]
Childhood and Society was the first of Erikson's books to become popular. [2] The critic Frederick Crews calls the work "a readable and important book extending Freud's developmental theory." [3] The Oxford Handbook of Identity names Erikson as the seminal figure in "the developmental approach of understanding identity". [4]
Author | Erik Erikson |
---|---|
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Subject | Childhood |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Co |
Publication date | 1950 |
Media type | Print ( Hardcover and Paperback) |
Pages | 445 |
ISBN | 039331068X |
Childhood and Society is a 1950 book about the social significance of childhood by the psychoanalyst Erik H. Erikson. [1]
Erikson discusses the social significance of childhood, [1] introducing ideas such as the eight stages of psychosocial development and the concept of an " identity crisis". [2]
Childhood and Society was the first of Erikson's books to become popular. [2] The critic Frederick Crews calls the work "a readable and important book extending Freud's developmental theory." [3] The Oxford Handbook of Identity names Erikson as the seminal figure in "the developmental approach of understanding identity". [4]