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Describe and evaluate Erikson's lifespan model of development. Erik Erikson (1902-1994) has been considered, one of the most accomplished analysts and scholars on the contemporary scene. He gained psychoanalytic training under Anna Freud at the Vienna Psychoanalytic Institute, which is where he first applied psychoanalytic thinking to educational questions (Henry Maier, 1969). Fascist Germany looming, he moved to the United States in 1933 where he obtained a position at Harvard Medical School, he later held positions at several renowned institutions including Yale, Berkeley and the Menninger Foundation. His interests were diverse, he studied suffering identity crises and social behaviour in India, as well as child-rearing practices among the Sioux in South Dakota and the Yurok on the Pacific coast (Patricia. H. Miller, 1989). Once in the United States he began to cultivate his theories on the psychosocial development which were an extension of Freud's psychosexual stages. Erikson's theories were divergent of...

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