Identity: Youth and Crisis (Austen Riggs Monograph, 7)

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Identity: Youth and Crisis collects Erik H. Erikson’s major essays on topics originating in the concept of the adolescent identity crisis.

Identity, Erikson writes, is an unfathomable as it is all-pervasive. It deals with a process that is located both in the core of the individual and in the core of the communal culture. As the culture changes, new kinds of identity questions arise―Erikson comments, for example, on issues of social protest and changing gender roles that were particular to the 1960s.

Representing two decades of groundbreaking work, the essays are not so much a systematic formulation of theory as an evolving report that is both clinical and theoretical. The subjects range from “creative confusion” in two famous lives―the dramatist George Bernard Shaw and the philosopher William James―to the connection between individual struggles and social order. “Race and the Wider Identity” and the controversial “Womanhood and the Inner Space” are included in the collection.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ W. W. Norton & Company
Publication date ‏ : ‎ May 17, 1994
Edition ‏ : ‎ unknown
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 336 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0393311449
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0393311440
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 11.2 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.6 x 1 x 8.4 inches
Best Sellers Rank: #239,517 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #46 in Popular Adolescent Psychology #65 in Behavioral Psychology (Books) #352 in Popular Psychology Personality Study
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