Erik Erikson has had the greatest impact on our understanding of human development since Sigmund Freud. While Freud`s theory of psychosexual development focuses on the disturbances of early childhood, ...

You've undoubtedly heard the term "identity crisis," but you may not know its origins. The developmental psychologist Erik Erikson defined eight crisis stages that characterize our lives from birth ...

As Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie states in her TED talk, "The danger of a single story," adolescents actively construct identity stories that knit together diverse group memberships, such as daughter, ...