Erik Erikson

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

Works

Major works

• Childhood and Society (1950)
• Young Man Luther. A Study in Psychoanalysis and History (1958)
• Gandhi's Truth: On the Origin of Militant Nonviolence (1969)
• Adulthood (edited book, 1978)
• Vital Involvement in Old Age (with J.M. Erikson and H. Kivnick, 1986)
• The Life Cycle Completed (with J.M. Erikson, 1997)

Collections

• Identity and the Life Cycle. Selected Papers (1959)
• A Way of Looking at Things: Selected Papers 1930-1980 (Editor: S.P. Schlien, 1995)
• The Erik Erikson Reader (Editor: Robert Coles, 2001)

Related works

• Identity's Architect: A Biography of Erik H. Erikson (Lawrence J. Freidman and Robert Coles, 1999)
• Erik Erikson, His Life, Work, and Significance (Kit Welchman, 2000)