OpenErik Erikson stated that there are eight psychosocial stages of development. Within each of these phases, he states that there is a crisis that needs to be resolved. Trust versus mistrust is the first, occurring from the time you are born until about one year of age. From there we move to autonomy with respect to shame and doubt, which occurs within one to three years. Then there is the anti-guilt initiative, which occurs from age three to six. After that it is industry versus inferiority, which occurs between the ages of six and twelve. Fowling or intimacy versus isolation, which occurs between the ages of eighteen and thirty. Then comes generativity versus stagnation, which occurs between your thirties and late adulthood. The last stage is that of integrity versus despair, which occurs in late adulthood. Erikson's eight stages of development occur in each of them. Your friends and family are going through different parts of these phases right now. Erikson's Life Erikson was born in Frankfurt, Germany, on June 15, 1902. His biological father abandoned his mother before he was born. His mother, alone, raised him Jewish. When he was three years old, his mother married his pediatrician, Dr. Theodor Heomberger. While going to school, his main classes were art and English classes. After graduating from high school, he wanted to become an artist. After traveling around Europe for a year, barely surviving and homeless, he enrolled in an art school. After graduating from art school, he began teaching art to children in Vienna. While teaching there, he became interested in psychoanalysis. As a student he was admitted to the Psychoanalytic Institute in Vienna, where he met his wife Joan. Fear of the Nazis caused Erikson and his wife to flee to Boston. While...... half of the paper...... A Study in Validation of a Measure.Douvan, E. (1997). Erik Erikson: Critical Times, Critical Theory. Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 28(1), 15-21.Munley, H., (1975) Erik Erikson's theory of psychosocial development and vocational behavior. United States: American Psychological Association, Vol22(4), 314-319. doi:10.1037/h0076749Myers, D. G. (2010). Module 18. In Module Psychology, ninth edition (pp. 200-204). New York, NY: Worth.Wagner, D., Lorion, P., & Shipley, E. (1983). Insomnia and psychosocial crisis: two studies on Erikson's developmental theory. United States: American Psychological Association, Vol51(4), 595-603. doi:10.1037/0022-006X.51.4.595Whitbourne, K., & Waterman, S. (1979). Psychosocial development during adulthood: Age and cohort comparisons. United States: American Psychological Association, Vol15(4), 373-378. doi: 10.1037/0012-1649.15.4.373