Autonomy versus shame and doubt is the second stage of Erik Erikson’s stages of psychosocial development. This stage occurs between the age of 18 months and around age 2 or 3 years. According to ...

Erik Erikson's psychosocial developmental theory (1950, 1968) was a response to Freud's reductionistic views of the human personality. For Erikson, all people have an essence, including the sexuality ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Development and psychological growth doesn’t just occur during our younger years. It is a ...

Erik Erikson, a psychoanalyst and developmental psychologist, helped reshape how we think about human development. In his theory of psychosocial development, Erikson framed development as a series of ...