Background information about Erikson

Erik H. Erikson’s was born in 1902 and died in 1994. He was born in Frank furt, Germany and moved to the United States in the early 1930s. While he was a young man, Erickson used to serve tutor to the children of Sigmund Freud associates. Accordingly, Erikson received training in psychoanalysis, while after he moved to the United Sates. He was an expert in the field of childhood psychoanalytic practices and he has done a significant number of investigations towards that field, as a result (Erickson, 1963), he began to evaluate a theory of affective or emotional development that completed the theory of Sigmund Freud. However Erikson theory was based on his own life experiences and what he leaned from Sigmund Fraud and Ana Freud. He name that theory as psychosocial theory because his theory combined three factors that have an influence on individual development, those are self-factor, the emotional factor and the social factor.

Erik H. Erikson