Born in Germany in 1902 of Danish parents, Erik H. Erikson was one of the leading figures in the field of psychoanalysis and human development. His clinical practice included the treatment of children and he made close studies of the process of growing up in a variety of social and cultural settings. He was Professor of Human Development at Harvard University, and Senior Consultant in Psychiatry for the Mount Zion Hospital in San Francisco. He died in 1994.
A rare and living combination of European and American thought in the human sciences -- Margaret Mead A unique combination of imaginative clinical description, rigorous thinking, gentle humour and deep humanity Science The application of psychoanalysis to the field of cultural anthropology has nowhere found a more mature expression Archives of Neurology and Psychiatry