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Erik Erikson

At a meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on February 12, 2002, the following Minute was placed upon the records.

Erik Homburger Erikson was born on June 15th, 1902, in Frankfurt, Germany. His mother was a Karla Abrahamsen, a Danish Jew whose husband had abandoned the family before Erik was born. When his mother remarried, Erik took his step-father’s name and became Erik Homburger. Some years later, when applying for United States citizenship he took the name Erik Homburger Erikson.

Erikson graduated from the classical gymnasium at Karlsruhe and proceeded to study art at the Baden State School of Art in Karlsruhe, leaving after one year for Munich. There he enrolled in the Academy of Art where he studied for two years. After some subsequent years of travel he came in 1927 to Vienna. Here he was invited by Anna Freud to teach at a small private school mainly for the children of members of the Freudian circle. Soon thereafter he entered psychoanalysis with her and began his training as a child analyst. For some years he took occasional courses at the Unive

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Biography of erik erikson

1. Biography of Erik Erikson Prepared by: Magadia, Kimberly B.

2. 2 Dane? German? American? Jew or Gentile? Artist or Psychoanalyst?

3. 3 Erik Homburger Erikson (Erik Salomonsen) - Born on June 15, 1902 in Germany - Artist, Psychologist, Psychoanalyst, Clinician, Professor, Anthropologist, Existentialist, and etc. - His parents are Karla Abrahamsen and Theodor Homburger (stepfather) - Known for Post-Freudian Theory (Psychosocial Development and identity crisis)

4. 4 Important Events in Erikson’s Life (Timeline) 1911 – He was officially adopted by his stepfather 1920 – He started wandering about Europe, searching and drifting

5. 5 c. 1926-1930 - He returned home confused, exhausted and unable to sketch or paint - He got the chance to teach children in Vienna School (one of the founders is Anna Freud) - He married Joan Serson (Canadian-born dancer, artist and teacher) - Had four children named Kai, Jon, Neil and Sue - He failed to take good care of Neil who was born with Down Syndrome

6. 6 1933 - He left Vienna for Denmark, then left C

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Erik Erikson

Erik Erikson’s relationship with Harvard spanned decades, coinciding with some of his most influential works. Born in Frankfurt, and trained in psychoanalysis in Vienna by Anna Freud, Erikson came to Boston in 1933. He accepted an appointment as a research associate at the Harvard Psychological Clinic; in conjunction with that position Erikson started to work on a graduate degree in psychology at Harvard. Finding himself at odds with the quantitative, empirical focus of Harvard’s Psychology Department, Erikson discontinued his studies in 1936 without finishing his degree. For the next two decades he pursued his interests in human development by conducting research at Yale and Berkeley, as well as continuing his private psychoanalytic practice.

Erikson’s humanist theory of psychosocial development deviated significantly from the traditional Freudian psychosexual theory of human development in two ways. Erikson believed that humans’ personalities continued to develop past the age of five, and he believed that the development of persona