Life Cycle Development

ERIK ERIKSONÆS STAGE DEVELOPMENT THEORY

Erikson (1968) has identified eight separate developmental stages, which together constitute the human life cycle that comprise both an encounter and a crisis. It is the resolution of this crisis which assists the individual in moving (or developing) and achieving the next stage of life. Erikson (1968) states that each stage ôbecomes a crisis because incipient growth and awareness in a new part function go together with a shift in instinctual energy and yet also cause a specific vulnerability in that partö (95).

The following chart offers a summation of the crises occurring at each of EriksonÆs developmental stages.

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thers as opposed to withdrawing into isolation. MR. WELDON (STAGE SEVEN) Mr. WeldonÆs shared experiences demonstrated his belief that he is in control of his own development, despite the challenges and obstacles he must overcome. His adolescent and early adulthood experiences described above represent his successful meeting of the challenges Erikson describes in stage IV and V, industry versus inferiority and identity versus identity confusion. As opposed to continuing to drink and suffer from feelings of inferiority, Mr. Weldon applied his energies to his academic studies and successfully met the development crisis at this stage through industry. Likewise, instead of following the crowd and adopting self-destructive behaviors to ôfit inö, Mr. Weldon chose to minimize his drinking and achieved a sense of identity and self-worth through pursuing his educational and professional goals. When he uses the term identity, Erikson refers not only to a conscious sense of individual uniqueness, but also to what he stresses as the unconscious striving for continuity and sameness of experience. It is his belief that it is through overcoming the inescapable crises detailed above (or what one might describe in general terms as an ôidentity
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