Spread the loveToday, while I was watching my son play with his friends, I started to think about child development, and how without fail, children from each generation follow a similar life journey. I was reminded of my days as a graduate student and the paper that I wrote about Erik Erikson’s 8 stages of psychosocial development. Erikson posited that personality develops in a rigid order through 8 stages of psychosocial development, from infancy to adulthood. During each stage, the person experiences a psychosocial crisis, which could have a positive or negative outcome for personality development. My son is two … Continue reading Revisiting Erik Erikson’s 8 Stages of Psychosocial Development