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Erik Erikson
Erik Erikson was born in Frankfort, Germany, on June 15, 1902. Erik’s father was a Danish man who had abandoned his mother, Karla Abrahamsen, before he was born. Karla raised Eril alone for the first three years of his life in Frankfort before she remarried to Erik’s pediatrician, Dr. Theodore Homberger. Karla and Theodore moved to Erik to Karlsruhe in southern Germany at about four, from Erik’s recollection. Erik’s name as a child and young adult was then Erik Homberger. After graduating high school, Erik traveled around Germany while taking art classes (Boeree).
When Erik was twenty-five he took a teaching position at an experimental school for American students. While teaching art he also received a certificate in Montessori education and one form the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society, with the help of Anna and Sigmund Freud. Erik has also met a Canadian dance teacher, Joan Serson, while teaching. Together Erik and Joan had three children, one who later went on to be a Sociologist. Erik and Joan left Vienna when the Nazi’s came into power, first for Copenhagen then to Boston, where Erik was offered a position at Harvard (Boeree).
When Erik became an American citizen he changed his last name to Erikson. Erikson became the first child psychologist in the New England area (Smith 65). He later taught at Yale and the University of California at Berkley. In 1950, Erikson left Berkeley when the professors were asked to sign “loyalty oaths.” Also in this year, Erikson wrote, “Childhood and Society,” where he divided the human life cycle into eight psychosocial stages of development (Erikson…Columbia). The book also contained summaries of his studies among the Native Americans, Analysis of Maxim Goriky and Adolph Hitler, and a discussion of the “American personality.” He spent ten years working and teaching at a clinic in Massachusetts and ten years more back at Harvard. Since retiring in 1970, he wrote and did research...
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