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Erikson's Stages of Psychosocial Development

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Erikson's stages of psychosocial development is a comprehensive psychoanalytic theory identifying eight stages that a healthy individual passes through from infancy to late adulthood, each centered on a psychosocial crisis between two conflicting forces whose resolution shapes personality and social relationships throughout life.

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Healthy development proceeds through eight stages, each defined by a psychosocial crisis between two conflicting forces whose resolution builds a particular strength carried into later stages. 1
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1950 2
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1. Wikipedia: Erikson's Stages of Psychosocial Development
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The two conflicting forces each have a psychosocial crisis which characterizes the eight stages.
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2. Wikipedia: Erik Erikson
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Childhood and Society
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