| Description |
592 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Contents: Foreword / Robert Coles -- 1. Toward a New Beginning: Infancy, Childhood, Youth -- 2. Vienna Years: Psychoanalysis as a Calling, 1927-33 -- 3. "The Making of an American": From Homburger to Erikson, 1933-39 -- 4. A Cross-Cultural Mosaic: Childhood and Society -- 5. Lives in Cycle: Childhood and Society II -- 6. Voice and Authenticity: The 1950s -- 7. Professor and Public Intellectual: The 1960s -- 8. Global Prophet: Erikson's Truth -- 9. Public and Private Matters of Old Age -- 10. "The Shadow of Nonbeing" |
| Summary |
The writing and ideas of Erik Erikson have had a remarkably lasting influence on our culture. Erikson's fascination with India and with Gandhi earned him the Pulitzer Prize for his book Gandhi's Truth and foreshadowed the contemporary West's growing interest in Eastern thought. His students at Harvard in the 1960s have gone on to great prominence - Carol Gilligan, Robert Coles, Mary Catherine Bateson, and Howard Gardner to name a few. Trained in Vienna by Sigmund and Anna Freud, Erikson came to depart from psychoanalytic orthodoxy in deeply innovative ways - insisting that social circumstances were no less important than the inner psyche in determining human personality |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 487-568) and index |
| Subject |
Erikson, Erik H. (Erik Homburger), 1902-1994.
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Psychoanalysis -- History.
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Psychoanalysts -- United States -- Biography.
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| LC no. |
98050266 |
| ISBN |
0684195259 |
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