Psychoanalytical Psychology, Psychiatrists & Psychologists - Biography, Psychology - History, Individual Psychologists
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Overview
The writing and ideas of Erik Erikson have had a remarkably lasting influence on our culture. Erikson's fascination with India and with Gandhi earned him the Pulitzer Prize for his book Gandhi's Truth and foreshadowed the contemporary West's growing interest in Eastern thought. His students at Harvard in the 1960s have gone on to great prominence - Carol Gilligan, Robert Coles, Mary Catherine Bateson, and Howard Gardner to name a few. Trained in Vienna by Sigmund and Anna Freud, Erikson came to depart from psychoanalytic orthodoxy in deeply innovative ways - insisting that social circumstances were no less important than the inner psyche in determining human personality.Editorials
Mark Edmundson
...[An] equable, impressively researched biography....[Friedman's] rich biography ...is likely to revive interest in Erikson and his project.— The New York Times Book Review
Library Journal
A voice of hope amidst the pathologists of psychoanalysis, Erikson was committed to describing people's minds in a healthy state. In this complex, nicely rendered biography, Friedman draws a fine portrait of Erikson's enthusiasm (which caused tension with the Vienna school) and uncertainty (which stemmed from his sense of displacement). Ultimately, he describes a time of rapid change in mind science and an influential man in search of both himself and a way to help others. (LJ 6/15/99) Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.Booknews
Drawing on exclusive access to private materials and extensive interviews with Erikson's family, students, and colleagues, Friedman (history, Indiana U.) offers the first authorized biography of the influential American postwar psychoanalyst and developmental psychologist. He emphasizes the interaction between Erickson's personal life and his ideas and writings. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)Mark Edmundson
...[An] equable, impressively researched biography....[Friedman's] rich biography ...is likely to revive interest in Erikson and his project.— The New York Times Book Review
Kirkus Reviews
A sympathetic, and meticulous account of the life and times of the psychoanalytic giant who mapped a progression of the individual's lifetime development of identity.Book Details
Published
May 24, 1999
Publisher
New York : Scribner, c1999.
Pages
592
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780684195254