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Erik Erikson (1902-1994)

Erik Erikson

Erik Homburger Erikson (15 June 1902 – 12 May 1994) was a Danish-German-American developmental psychologist and psychoanalyst known for his theory on social development of human beings, and for coining the phrase identity crisis.


Quotes·Quotations by Erik Erikson

Children

@ 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.
Childhood and Society (1950)

@ Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.
Childhood and Society (1950), p. 269

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