Erikson's Education and Training

While being a student and teacher of the art Eric Erickson underwent psychoanalysis. This experience made him decide to become an analyst himself. Eric Erikson was trained at the Vienna Psychoanalytic Institue in  psychoanalysis.Additionally, he studied studied the Montessori method of education, that focused on child developmet. He graduated in 1933. He moved to the United States an accepted a position at Massachusetts general hospital. He was the first child psychoanalyst. He aslo worked at Harvard Medical School, the Judge Baker Guidance Center, and Psychological Clinic further developing his reputation as a clinician. 

                                                                                

     In 1936 Erikson joined the staff at Harvard University. while there he spent onne year observing children on a reservation in South Dakota. He then moved to the University of California at Berkley, working with the Institute of Child Welfare. At this point he decided to open his own private practice as well. He went on to study children of another reservation. He went on to publish a book for which he is known greatly by is entitled Childhood and Society.

                                                                              

     In 1950 Erikson left the University of California and went on to teach at the Austen Riggs Center for ten years. He later returned to Harvard in the 1960's where he continued to work until his retirement in 1970. In 1973 he was selected for the Jefferson Lecture. This is the United States highest honor in humanities.
   




                                             Eric Erikson's Psychosocial Development