Childhood and Society

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Childhood and Society
Childhood and Society (first edition).jpg
Cover of the first edition
Author Erik Erikson
LanguageEnglish
Subject Childhood
Publisher W. W. Norton & Co
Publication date
1950
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (Hardcover and Paperback)
Pages445
ISBN 039331068X

Childhood and Society is a 1950 book about the social significance of childhood by the psychoanalyst Erik H. Erikson. [1]

Contents

Summary

Erikson discusses the social significance of childhood, [1] introducing ideas such as the eight stages of psychosocial development and the concept of an "identity crisis". [2]

Reception

Childhood and Society was the first of Erikson's books to become popular. [2] The critic Frederick Crews calls the work "a readable and important book extending Freud's developmental theory." [3] The Oxford Handbook of Identity names Erikson as the seminal figure in "the developmental approach of understanding identity". [4]

References

  1. 1 2 Paul Roazen, 'Childhood and Society', International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis. Reprinted online at answers.com.
  2. 1 2 "Childhood and Society". W. W. Norton and Company, Inc. Retrieved 2012-03-24.
  3. ↑ Crews, Frederick (1970). Psychoanalysis and Literary Process . Cambridge, Massachusetts: Winthrop Publishers, Inc. p.  286. ISBN   0-9515922-5-4.
  4. ↑ McLean, Kate C.; Syed, Moin; McLean, Kate C.; Syed, Moin (2015-01-01), "The Field of Identity Development Needs an Identity", The Oxford Handbook of Identity Development, Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199936564.013.023, ISBN   9780199936564 {{citation}}: CS1 maint: work parameter with ISBN (link)
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