Saturday, February 9, 2019

Ninth stage (Joan Erikson, 1998)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erikson%27s_stages_of_psychosocial_development#Ninth_stage

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Erikson (1903-1997)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Erikson (1902-1994)


Psychosocial Crises: All first eight stages in reverse quotient order
Joan M. Erikson, who married and collaborated with Erik Erikson, added a ninth stage in The Life Cycle Completed: Extended Version. Living in the ninth stage, she wrote, "old age in one's eighties and nineties brings with it new demands, reevaluations, and daily difficulties". Addressing these new challenges requires "designating a new ninth stage". Erikson was ninety-three years old when she wrote about the ninth stage.

The Life Cycle Completed, by Erik H. EriksonJoan M. Erikson, W. W. Norton & Company; Extended Version edition, 1998 (kindle 2019-2-9)