PSY 2510 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Sigmund Freud
21 Apr 2020
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Erik erikson developed, in the second half of the twentieth century, one of the most popular and influential theories of development: psychosocial development. The stages of erikson"s psychosocial development respond to a comprehensive psychoanalytic theory that identifies a series of stages through which a healthy individual goes through his life history. Each stage would be characterized by a psychosocial crisis of two conflicting forces. Erikson, like sigmund freud, believed that personality developed in a series of stages. The fundamental difference is that freud based his theory of the development of a series of psychosexual stages. For his part, erikson focused on psychosocial development. Erikson was interested in how interaction and social relations played a role in the development and growth of human beings. Each of the eight stages described by erikson in his theory of psychosocial development is based on the previous stages, so that it facilitates the path for the following periods of development.
