Eric Ericson

(June 15, 1902 – May 12, 1994)

Birth place

• Born in Frankfurt

Significant achievementsSignificant achievements

• He is well know for his strides in psycology• His Theories of personality• His theories of psychosocial behavior

Schooling

• He under went and studied psychoanalysis with Sigmund Freud

jobs

• in 1933, the Nazis had just come to power in Germany, and he emigrated with his wife, first to Denmark and then to the United States, where he became the first child psychoanalyst in Boston

• In 1936, Erikson accepted a position at Yale University, where he worked at the Institute of Human Relations and taught at the Medical School.

sources

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_H._Erikson wikkipedia