Erik Erikson:
Stages of Psychosocial Development
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Introduction
Erik Erikson was born in Frankfurt, Germany, on June 15, 1902. Erikson’s father was a Danish man and abandoned his mother, Karla Abrahamsen, before he was born. Karla raised Erik alone for the first three years of his life in Frankfurt before she remarried Erik’s pediatrician, Dr. Theodor Homberger. Karla and Theodor moved to Karlsruhe in southern Germany and raised Erik as their own. Erik’s name as a child and young adult was Erik Homberger. After graduating high school Erik roamed Europe taking art classes and visiting museums (Boeree).
When he was twenty-five Erik took a teaching position at an experimental school for American students. Besides teaching art, he gathered a certificate in Montessori education and one from the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society. While he was teaching at the school he met a Canadian dancer co-worker, Joan Serson, who became his wife and fathered his three children. They......
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