Erik Erikson's Stages of Psychosocial DevelopmentPsychologist Erik Erikson maintained that the human personality develops in a predetermined order through eight stages of psychosocial development, from infancy to adulthood. During each stage in your lifespan, it is possible to have a psychosocial crisis that could have a negative outcome for your personality development.A psychosocial crisis involves a conflict between your psychological needs (psycho) with the needs of society (social). At…
