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A 5 page research paper that begins by offering a brief summary of Erikson's background that particularly relates to Erikson's own problems with identity formation. The next section offers a summation of Erikson's model of personality development and the closing page discusses how this information applies to issues of religious faith. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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example, Herman (2000), citing a biography of Erikson by L.J. Friedman, states that Erikson was adopted by his German Protestant stepfather, while Boeree (2006) indicates that Eriksons stepfather was Dr.
Theodor Homberger, a Jewish pediatrician, and that Erikson was raised within the Jewish faith under the name of Erik Homberger. Sources agree that his biological father was an unknown
Danish man whom Erikson never met. Whatever the correct specifics of Eriksons background are, it seems clear that this presented difficulties, crises in identity, that had to be overcome in
order to forge a successful adult identity, as he was a "tall, blue-eyed boy" who was teased by other Jewish children at temple school for looking Nordic and teased in
grammar school as well for being Jewish (Boeree, 2006). He attended the Vienna Psychoanalytic Institute in the 1920s, where he studied under Anna Freud. While Erikson considered himself to
be a Freudian in his approach to psychology, his theory differs from that of Freud in that Erikson came to believe that social interactions, not simply biological instinct, also play
a major role in human development and that social interaction is he driving force in development throughout the life span (Erik Erikson, 2001). After coming to the US in 1933
to teach at Harvard Medical School, Erikson formulated his famous of psychosocial development. When he became an American citizen, he changed his name to the Erikson, which his son, Kai,
believes was the result of a decision "to define himself as a self-made man: Erik, son of Erik" (Boeree, 2006). Eriksons model/psychosocial stages of development Eriksons eight psychosocial stages
are based on the idea that personality development continues throughout life and can be characterized as moving through a series of stages, which each stage presenting a crucial crisis that
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