Erik Satie

Everyone goes through significant events in their lifetime. These events can range from the death of a loved one to the achievement of an educational goal. People’s life paths can be changed by these events. Some will react poorly, either not coping with the negative or not benefitting from the positive. Others yet will react positively, rising above their circumstances and using them to change the world. A person’s reaction to an event can change their future. Events in Eliezer Wiesel’s life…

Society has made constant attempts to rationalize and explain child and human development through observations and research done over extended periods of time. Over the course of life, sociologists, psychologists, and anthropologists have deduced several theories, which clearly articulate and respond to the questions about human civilization that individuals have asked, for over centuries and established them as theoretical perspectives. The most referred to theory, functionalism, analyzes the…

Erik Erikson’s psychoanalytic theory: Erikson’s psychoanalytic theory of psychosocial development has eight stages from infancy to adulthood. According to him personality develops in a predetermined order, and builds upon each stage. During each stage, the child experiences a psychosocial crisis which could have a positive or negative outcome on personality development, the third psychosocial crisis occurs during three to six years of age and he calls it as play age. He concentrated more on…

yourself, the more patience you have for what you see in others.” Erik Erikson. Erik Erikson described eight stages of development. Berger (2014) stated that each characterized by a particular challenge, or developmental crisis.” Pg. 41 unlike Sigmund Freud, “Erikson’s stages emphasize family and culture, not sexual urges.” and, “Erikson recognizes adult development, with three stages after adolescence.” Berger (2014).Pg. 41 Erik Erikson’s psychosocial development include Trust vs Mistrust…

In the article, Self-Esteem Development Across the Lifespan by Richard Robins and Kali Trzesniewski it touches on the current scientific evidence concerning the development of self-esteem across the lifespan. According to the article there seems to be a agreement on the ways self esteem evolves over time. The authors specifically focus on two forms of changes: normative change if self esteem and the stability of individual differences in self esteem. The normative changes show if a person’s…

MART 450 Tobin Addington Week 2/Due 09/10/16 Op-Ed Essay: How Does a Child become a Successful Adult The issue: Many children are not being taught life lessons to develop needed tools going forward in life to become successful adults. The successful adult: Are there specific parameters parents could follow in raising their children so they become successful adults and not burdens on society? Wow! I have to stop already and first get my head wrapped around the definition of “The Successful…

Erik Homberger Erikson was born on June 15, 1902 in Frankfurt, Germany. Erikson’s Jewish mother Karla Abrahamsen and biological father an unnamed Danish man abandoned him before he was born. His mother married Dr. Theodor Homberger who would raise Erikson as his son. The family moved to Karlsruhe in southern Germany. Erikson officially changed his named to Erik Erikson when he became an American citizen. No one truly knows why he chose the name, Erikson. Early in Erikson’s education instead of…

The United States during the 1890s heralded a dramatic break between America’s past and future. It was a decade of extreme contradiction. The unmatched cultural advancement was accompanied by intense economic unrest. While this decade saw the rise of cities, advanced technology, and rollercoasters, it also saw economic depressions, the invention of detection, and the birth of America’s serial killer. The World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893 highlights the contradictions of United States culture,…

When studying people, Freud had developed a topography for personality focused mainly on the id. Being Freud, his personality topography was heavily saturated with the psychosexual. Erik Erikson, influenced by the works of Freud, developed his own personality topography. Erikson, however, focused on ego and emphasized the role of culture, society and the conflicts that can take place within a person. According to Erikson, the ego develops as it resolves crises that are social in nature. These…

The first stage of Erik Erikson’s theory is Trust versus Mistrust. Children go through this stage from birth to eighteen months and this is the stage when kids learn if they are able to trust the world or not. The quality of the care that is given to the child is critical if they want to achieve the sense of trust. I personally do not remember going through this stage but from analyzing the type of person I am today, I can assume that I have successfully achieved trust. I have a wonderful…