Erik Erikson Erik Erikson is most known for his theories about human development. Erikson is a Freudian ego-psychologist. Erickson generally agreed with what Freud was saying, but he added some of his own interpretation and a couple more stages to his theory. Erikson's theory consists of eight stages that start from the minute we welcomed in to the world, until the day that we leave it. Along with each of the eight stages, Erikson provided …showed first 75 words of 957 total…

…showed last 75 words of 957 total…Erikson believed that children played as big a role in there parents lives as their parents did in there's. Although Erikson in some ways agreed with Freud his theory covered a much broader age category. Eriksons theory does not work for each and every individual but it is a good starting block. He believed that we continued to grow mental until we died, that we did not stop progressing after we reached a certain age.