Childhood and Society - Hardcover

Erikson, Erik H.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0393022951 ISBN 13: 9780393022957

Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc, 1986

Synopsis

A psychoanalytical study of the significance of society on childhood using case studies of American and European children

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Childhood and Society deals with the relationships between childhood training and cultural accomplishment, analyzing the infantile and the mature, the modern and the archaic elements in human motivation. It was hailed upon its first publication as 'a rare and living combination of European and American thought in the human sciences' (Margaret Mead, The American Scholar). Translated into numerous foreign languages, it has gone on to become a classic in the study of the social significance of childhood.

About the Author:

Born in Germany in 1902 of Danish parents, Erik H. Erikson was one of the leading figures in the field of psychoanalysis and human development. His clinical practice included the treatment of children and he made close studies of the process of growing up in a variety of social and cultural settings. He was Professor of Human Development at Harvard University, and Senior Consultant in Psychiatry for the Mount Zion Hospital in San Francisco. He died in 1994.

About this edition

• Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0393022951
• ISBN 13: 9780393022957
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 445