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Erik Erikson

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  • Date of Birth

  • Got married to his wife, Joan

  • Graduated from the Vienna Psychoanalytic Institute

  • Joined staff of Harvard University

    Worked at the Institute of Human Relations and taught at the Medical School.
  • Moved to University of California at Berkley

    He spent ten years working and teaching at the Austen Riggs Center
  • Published a book- Childhood and Society

    He spent ten years working and teaching at the Austen Riggs Center
  • Returned to Harvard as a Professor of human development

    Remained there until his retirement in 1970
  • Retired

  • Selected for Jefferson Lecture

    the National Endowment for the Humanities selected Erikson for the Jefferson Lecture, the United States' highest honor for achievement in the humanities. Erikson's lecture was titled "Dimensions of a New Identity"