Identity and the life cycle

Identity and the life cycle by Erik H. Erikson. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780393012460.

Erik H. Eriksons remarkable insights into the relationship of life history and history began with observations on a central stage of life: identity development in adolescence. This book collects three early papers thatâ along with Childhood and Societyâ many consider the best introduction to Eriksons theories. "Ego Development and Historical Change" is a selection of extensive notes in which Erikson first undertook to relate to each other observations on groups studied on field trips and on children studied longitudinally and clinically. These notes are representative of the source material used for Childhood and Society. "Growth and Crises of the Health Personality" takes Erikson beyond adolescence, into the critical stages of the whole life cycle. In the third and last essay, Erikson deals with "The Problem of Ego Identity" successively from biographical, clinical, and social points of viewâ all dimensions later pursued separately in his work.