in the personality, does the person have sufficient strength to deal with the next stages of development. If a person is unable to resolve a conflict at a particular stage, they will confront and struggle with it later in life. Even as this holds true, the outcome of one stage is not permanent, but can be altered by later experiences. Everyone has a mixture of traits achieved at each stage, but personality development is considered successful if the individual has more of the good traits than the bad traits.Although in his lifetime Erikson was thought to be the best known, most deeply esteemed and most widely influential in the sociohistorical surround of world culture (Robert Wallerstein), his contributions have been overlooked and unremarked. His work continues to this day to be neglected and unintegrated within psychoanalysis. Unfortunately, needless to say, Erikson received no awards or special recognition for his life work on the basis that critics have noted that he did no statistical Research to generate his theories and it is very hard to test his theories in order to validate them.Eriksons theory of eight stages of development was a monumental contribution to our understanding of the psychosocial developmental process, which is why we still study his work. His work is valued more that ever today, because of societys anxiousness to learn more about themselves. His theories are an asset to psychology today. ...
