3. Introduction to the 8 stages:
• 1. Erikson’s “Psychological” term
– Psycho = mind, brain, personality
– Social =external relationships and environment
2. Influenced by Sigmund Freud.
-incorporated cultural and social aspects.
3. His ideas were developed overtime, aided by his
own journey through the “psychological crisis”
stages model
4. 4. Simple and well designed
5.Powerful model, very accessible and
relevant to modern life.
-useful for teaching
-parenting
-self-awareness
-managing and coaching
-dealing with conflict
-understanding self and others.
5. 6.Various terms used to describe Erikson’s
model:
- Erikson’s bio-psycho-social theory
-Erikson’s human development cycle
or life cycle
7. The epigenetic principle.
8.Each stages involves a psychosocial
crisis of two opposing emotional crisis.
9. Healthy ratio or balance
10. Maladaptation and malignancies
6. 11.The crisis stages are not sharply
defined steps.
12.Erikson was keen to point out that the
transition between stages is overlapping.
13.Erikson also emphasized the
significance of “mutuality” and “generativity”
In his theory.
24. Psychosocial Crisis:
Intimacy vs. Isolation
Relationships: lovers, friends, work
connections
Issues: intimate relationships,
work and social life
Basic Virtue: Love and Affiliation
Maladaptation: Promiscuity
Malignancy: Exclusivity
27. Psychosocial Crisis:
Generativity vs. Stagnation
Relationships: children, community
Issues: 'giving back', helping,
contributing
Basic Virtue: Care and Production
Maladaptation: Overextension
Malignancy: Rejectivity
30. Psychosocial Crisis:
Ego Integrity vs. Despair
Relationships: society, the world
Issues: meaning and purpose, life
achievements
Basic Virtue: Wisdom and
Renunciation
Maladaptation: Presumption
Malignancy: Disdain