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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. Erikson with this deeply influential book, which is now internationally recognised as a classic study of childhood and its social significance, professor erikson has made an outstanding contribution to the study of human behaviour. With this deeply influential book, which is now internationally recognised as a classic study of childhood and its social significance, professor erikson has made an outstanding contribution to the study of human behaviour. Case studies illustrate various aspects of the basic concepts. His insights into the interdependence of the individuals growth and historical change, his nowfamous concepts of identity, growth, and the life cycle, have changed the way we perceive ourselves and society. Erikson, including childhood and society, and identity and the life cycle, and more on. Erikson was renowned worldwide as teacher, clinician, and theorist in the field. Erikson underlie much of our understanding of human. Childhood and society ebook written by e h erikson.
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