History & Society
Erik Erikson
American psychoanalyst
Also known as: Erik H. Erikson, Erik Homburger Erikson
Category:
History & Society
- In full:
- Erik Homburger Erikson
- Also called:
- Erik H. Erikson
- Born:
- June 15, 1902, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
- Died:
- May 12, 1994, Harwich, Massachusetts, U.S. (aged 91)
- Awards And Honors:
- Pulitzer Prize
- Subjects Of Study:
- child development
- psychological development
- Sioux
- Yurok
- culture
Erik Erikson (born June 15, 1902, Frankfurt am Main, Germany—died May 12, 1994, Harwich, Massachusetts, U.S.) was a German-born American psychoanalyst whose writings on social psychology, individual identity, and the interactions of psychology with history, politics, and culture influenced professional approaches to psychosocial problems and attracted much popular interest. As a young man, Erikson attended art school and traveled around Europe. In 1927, when he was invited by the psychoanalyst Anna Freud to teach art, history, and geography at a small private school in Vienna, he entered psychoanalysis with her and underwent training to become a psychoanalyst himself. He became ...(100 of 526 words)