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A 5 page paper that begins with a little background about how Erikson differs from both Freud and Piaget. The essay is a self-analysis of a 32-year old woman with one child going through a nasty divorce while furthering her education. The paper discusses three stages, 5, 6 and 7 and explains how this individual reflects different issues in each stage. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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progress through the stages sequentially, they could not skip over one but it is possible to overlap or even to regress. Each of Eriksons stages has a duality, a crisis
that must be resolved successfully for the person to move on to the next stage successfully (Boeree, 2006). While there are similarities between Freuds stages and Eriksons stage and between
Piagets stages and Eriksons there are very explicit differences. In terms of Freud, Erikson dismissed the notion that everything was sexual in nature (Boeree, 2006). Boeree (2006) commented that Erikson
was "much more society and culture-oriented than most Freudians." As for Piaget and Erikson, Piaget was approached intellectual development from the biological points of view while Erikson approached development from
the psychosocial point of view This writer is within Eriksons Stage 6: Young Adulthood which spans ages 19 through 40 (Boeree, 2006). The crisis at this stage is Intimacy
vs. Isolation (Boeree, 2006). These are the years when an individual is expected to learn how to develop long-lasting relationships, love relationships (Boeree, 2006). It is more towards the beginning
of this stage that individuals are seeking to establish strong relationships, to find companions and to find that one person to love (Harder, 2002). Consider todays world. following high school
graduations at about age 18, an individual goes on to higher education, further training or right out to the work world. The focus is really on earning a living or
preparing oneself for a profession or occupation. These people are not generally looking for a permanent, lifelong relationship but they may well be looking for companions. By their mid-20s, people
are getting started in their careers, again, in todays world, we know their focus is promotion and success. If true love comes along, thats fine, but, if it doesnt, thats
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