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Identity's Architect: A Biography of Erik H. Erikson

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One of the most profound thinkers of the twentieth century, Erik H. Erikson was the architect of the "identity crisis" and the "life cycle" -- concepts that are now a familiar part of today's culture. "Identity's Architect" is the first comprehensive and authorized biography of Erikson, postwar America's most influential psychoanalyst, who acutely reshaped our views of human development. Drawing on private materials and extensive interviews with Erikson's family, students, and closest colleagues around the world, award-winning historian Lawrence J. Friedman illuminates the relationship between Erikson's personal life and his groundbreaking ideas. This book lays bare the identity crisis that was at the root of this remarkable man's lifelong quest to discover who his father was. Friedman insightfully shows how Erikson's famous eight-stage model of the human life cycle grew from the birth of his third son, who was born developmentally handicapped. Even Erikson's acclaimed studies of Luther, Gandhi, Jefferson, and Jesus were inseparable from his life circumstances. The writing and ideas of Erik Erikson have had a remarkably lasting influence on our culture. Erikson's fascination with India and with Gandhi earned him the Pulitzer Prize for his book "Gandhi's Truth" and foreshadowed the contemporary West's growing interest in Eastern thought. His students at Harvard in the 1960s have gone on to great prominence -- Carol Gilligan, Robert Coles, Mary Catherine Bateson, and Howard Gardner to name a few. Trained in Vienna by Sigmund and Anna Freud, Erikson came to depart from psychoanalytic orthodoxy in deeply innovative ways -- insisting that social circumstances were no lessimportant than the inner psyche in determining human personality. This exhaustively researched, compelling biography, which has been ten years in the making, is indispensable for anyone who hopes to fully understand one of the most significant intellectual figures of our time.

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Robert S. Wallerstein, M.D. former president, American Psychoanalytic AssociationIn his magisterial and definitive biographical account of [Erikson] and his ideas, Lawrence Friedman unfolds for us the fullness of Erikson's development as both insider and outsider to the history of psychoanalysis....Must reading for all those who strive to understand more fully the evolving culture within which we have grown and live.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780684195254
  • Publisher: Prentice Hall (a Pearson Education company)
  • Publisher Imprint: Prentice Hall & IBD
  • Height: 248 mm
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 885 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0684195259
  • Publisher Date: 24 May 1999
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: A Biography of Erik H. Erikson
  • Width: 165 mm


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