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Describe the first five stages of Erik Erickson’s Theory of personality.

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Erik Erickson : Erickson like Homey emphasized (1902-1944) the importance of thinking process of conscious mind unlike Freud whose primary focus was an unconscious mind. Erickson developed a new approach of developmental milestone. He introduced eight stages a psycho social development where he described the 8 chief conflict areas of crises along with their respective favorable and unfavorable outcomes which play key role in personality development at that particular stages

StageCrisiFavourable outcomeUnfavourable Outcome
1stTrust vs MistrustFaith in environment and Future eventsSuspicion fear of future events.
2ndautonomy vs Shame and doubtAsense of self control and adequacyFelling of shame and doubt on self.
3rdInitiatives vs GuiltTo self start initiate one's own activityAll alone a sense of inadequacy and  guilt.
4thIndustry vs inferiorityLearns how things word, can understand and organise materialFeels a sense of inferiority in understanding and organising and guilt.
5thIdentify vs rule confusionPerceiving oneself as unique and integrated individualConfusion over one really is.


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