Childhood and Society
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.14 (796 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 039331068X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 445 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-01-08 |
| Language | : | English |
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Fit for a lifetime Erikson has added to Sigmund Freud's postulated stages of id development (sexual development), and come of with 3 more phases. An interesting book!. excellent Amazon Customer Have read his stuff for years. Always good. "Interesting, But Not Exactly for the People-Magazine-Type Reader" according to Franklin the Mouse. Mr. Erikson wrote a thought-provoking book, but it is certainly a product of his times. Such notions as homosexuality being deviant (his word, not mine) behavior and was more of a symptom of a psychologically damaged individual has not held up to present scientific evidence. Overall, the book is a fascinating dissection of ch
. Erikson was renowned worldwide as teacher, clinician, and theorist in the field of psychoanalysis and human development. A winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, Erik H
"A rare and living combination of European and American thought in the human sciences" -- Margaret Mead "A unique combination of imaginative clinical description, rigorous thinking, gentle humour and deep humanity" Science "The application of psychoanalysis to the field of cultural anthropology has nowhere found a more mature expression" Archives of Neurology and Psychiatry
Widely read and cited, his works have won numerous awards including the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. Translated into numerous foreign languages, it has gone on to become a classic in the study of the social significance of childhood.. Erikson underlie much of our understanding of human development. It was hailed upon its first publication as "a rare and living combination of European and American thought in the human sciences" (Margaret Mead, The American Scholar). Combining the insights of clinical psychoanalysis with a new approach to cultural anthropology, Childhood and Society deals with the relationships between childhood training and cultural accomplishment, analy