Childhood and Society Summary
Erik Erikson

Childhood and Society Summary

Childhood and Society is a landmark study and theory of childhood development that attempts to combine the methodology of Freudian psychoanalysis and cultural anthropology in order to generate a psychology of child development. Erik Erikson (1902 - 1994), a Danish-German-American psychologist and one of the most important psychologists of the twentieth century, wrote Childhood and Society in 1950 after extensive contact with Anna Freud, the daughter of Sigmund Freud, receiving training in psychoanalysis, observing...

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