The development of human individuals presents great possibilities. Some people begin to develop rather mediocre and even seem to accomplish nothing, but they will achieve outstanding achievements in the future. Why? The situation is naturally complex and diverse. However, individuals have deep psychological problems, or specific psychological problems, which is an important factor. If this problem is solved, the person concerned will be like a different person and be able to walk out of a completely different life path. This is the case with psychologist Eriksson.

Erick homburger Erickson (1902-1994) was born near Frankfurt, Germany. His parents are Danish. However, his father believed in Protestantism and his mother believed in Judaism. Eriksson's parents had separated before he was born. Subsequently, the mother moved to Karlsruhe with Eriksson and remarried Theodore homburger, a local pediatrician.

Eriksson's biological father is a Nordic, and his biological mother and stepfather are Jews. He has Nordic golden hair, but he lives in a Jewish community with black hair, which makes Eriksson encounter a lot of trouble in the process of growing up. For example, he could not enter Jewish religious sites; He was ostracized not only by his peripheral Jewish partners, but also by other Nordic partners. At the same time, Eriksson's parents did not tell him that the family was reorganized.

After graduating from high school at the age of 18, Eriksson wandered around Europe for a year. In fact, his mother had told Eriksson that his biological father had gone to Western Europe, but he didn't know the specific location. Eriksson was looking for his biological father in Europe. He once tried to study painting and entered art school twice, but neither of them graduated.

In 1927, Eriksson went to Vienna and applied for an art teacher in a small experimental school. This school was founded by Freud's daughter Anna and mainly recruits the children of Freud's patients and friends. Anna is very kind to Eriksson and often takes him home for dinner. Eriksson was appreciated by Freud, and he was grateful to the Freudians.

As a result, unlike Jung, Adler, horny, Sullivan and Fromm who betrayed Freud, Eriksson creatively developed psychoanalysis on the basis of being loyal to Freud's theory. In 1933, Eriksson officially became a member of the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society. The psychoanalytic society requires its members to have a medical background, and Eriksson doesn't even have any college diploma.

After the German Nazis came to power in 1933, Eriksson went to the United States to avoid harm, opened a children's psychoanalysis clinic in Boston, and served as a consultant in the local public hospital. In 1936, he went to Yale University to engage in special research. When Erikson naturalized in the United States in 1939, he took the surname Erikson and identified himself as Eric homburger Erickson, which completely solved his identity crisis [1], and he finally converted to Christianity. In 1942, he went to teach at the University of California, Berkeley. He resigned in 1950 because he refused to sign the McCarthy act. In 1960, Eriksson was hired as a professor at Harvard University. This is another controversial event - because Eriksson has no college diploma, many professors of Harvard University jointly protested to the president against the employment of Eriksson. The president resisted the pressure and insisted that Eriksson be a professor at Harvard University. Eriksson's class effect is very good and is very popular with students. He worked at Harvard University until he retired in 1970.

Eriksson believes that individual psychological development is affected by social factors, so he puts forward the term psychosocial stage, which divides individual life development into eight stages. These psychosocial stages do not occur within a strict age frame. Everyone has his own timetable. Every level of psychosocial development has a critical period of preparation. During this period, if it cannot be fully developed, it will lead to disordered behavior.

At the same time, the development of these stages is cumulative, which is the interaction of biological development, psychological ability and social influence. Each of the eight stages has its own identity crisis. Eriksson pointed out that a crisis is not a disaster, but a critical period, a turning point, a turning point that individuals cannot and do not need to avoid. Each stage also provides development opportunities for specific basic psychological qualities.

In the past 40 years of his life, Eriksson was perplexed by his identity and struggled with the psychological problems between neuropathy and psychosis. When he solved his identity crisis, his personal development also entered an excellent state. As a person with only a secondary school diploma, he has successfully engaged in research and teaching in the world's top universities. How incredible and inspiring it is! Eriksson is a master of psychoanalysis. His book Gandhi's truth: the origin of non violent military action (1969) won the Pulitzer Prize and the American National Book Award. He was praised as the most influential and outstanding psychoanalyst by time magazine and Newsweek.