Erikson's stages of psychosocial development describes eight developmental stages through which a healthily developing human should pass from infancy to late adulthood. In each stage the person ...

Erik Erikson developed a psychosocial stage theory that illuminates how people progress through certain stages during their lifespans. The stages in this theory of development may be negotiated poorly ...

Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I, I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. Robert Frost’s famous poem “The Road Not Taken” tells the ...

As challenging as coping with significant life change can be, as I’ve written previously, change is really the only constant during this one precious life we have. Indeed, life itself is an ongoing ...

Intimacy versus isolation refers to a stage of development in young adulthood. During this time, a person develops close friendships and a love relationship, both of which are intimate. When this does ...

I’ll be turning 50 later this year and I’m having a very difficult time with my current stage in the aging process. I’m not so much worried about the number itself but about the changes in my body and ...

John Money and Richard R. Clopper, Jr. Pubertal anomalies fall into two major groups: errors of timing (delayed puberty and precocious puberty) and errors of congruence (for example, adolescent ...