Erik Erikson

Erik Erikson is most known for his theories about human development. Erikson is a Freudian ego-psychologist. Erickson generally agreed with what Freud was saying, but he added some of his own interpretation and a couple more stages to his theory. Erikson's theory consists of eight stages that start from the minute we welcomed in to the world, until the day that we leave it. Along with each of the eight stages, Erikson provided a description of the type of conflict and corresponding events that occur to individuals of that would reside in that age bracket or stage. …