The Erik Erikson Reader

Description

"Erik H. Erikson is recognized as one of the world's leading figures in the field of psychoanalysis and human development. His ideas and writings about the stages of development, the sources of identity, and the interdependence of individual growth and historical change completely revolutionized our understanding of the nature and course of psychological growth." "With writings from Erikson's entire career, including major work from Childhood and Society, Insight and Responsibility, Young Man Luther, and Gandhi's Truth, this reader charts the influence of Erikson's thinking in the areas of child psychology, development through the lifespan, leadership, and moral growth."--Jacket.

First Sentence

Not all of us who work with children (as teachers, as would-be healers) venture much beyond our usual bounds; inevitably, we go to schools, to hospitals and clinics-there to learn about the young, to assist them in learning about themselves (or in a classroom, about a subject matter), and there sometimes even to learn from them, to hear their questions, the thoughts and concerns on their minds.

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