Erik Homberger Erikson was born in 1902 near Frankfurt, Germany, to Danish parents. Erik studied art and a variety of languages ​​during his school years, rather than science courses such as biology and chemistry. He didn't prefer the atmosphere produced by formal education, so instead of going to college he traveled around Europe, keeping a diary of his experiences. After a year he returned to Germany and enrolled in art school. After several years, Erickson began teaching art and other subjects to the children of Americans who had come to Vienna for a Freudian education. He was subsequently admitted to the Psychoanalytic Institute of Vienna. In 1933 he came to the United States and became Boston's first child analyst and obtained a position at Hayvard Medical School. Subsequently, he also held positions at institutions including Yale, Berkeley, and the Menninger Foundation. Erickson then returned to California to the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in Palo Alto and later to Mount Zion Hospital in San Francisco, where he worked as a physician and psychiatric consultant. Erickson's interests were spread over a wide area. He studied the combat crises of distressed American soldiers during World War II, the child-rearing practices among the Sioux in South Dakota and the Yurok along the Pacific coast, the play of disturbed and normal children, the conversations of adolescents problematic people suffering from identity crisis and social problems. behavior in India. Erickson was also consistently interested in the rapid social changes in America and wrote about issues such as the generation gap, racial tensions, juvenile delinquency, changing sex roles, and the dangers of nuclear war. Erikson proposed that people grow up experiencing a series of cr...... middle of paper ...... and loyalty require it" Erikson left the field of psychology with great achievements, he was a great writer, a great doctor and a great man. He left a great legacy. "If the relationship between father and son has dominated the last century, then this is about the self-made man wondering what he is doing with himself." CG, Theories of Personality http://www.ship.edu/-cgboeree/erikson.html http://www.ship.edu/-cgboeree/persinto.html Erikson HE, Childhood and Society (1963) Friedman JL, Architect of Identity : a biography of Erik H. Erikson (1999) Hall E, Lamb M, Perlmutter M., Child Psychology Today 2nd ED (1986) p. Erikson.htmlMyer D., Exploring Psychology 3rd ED (1996) p. 93-96