Quotes by Erik Erikson

Erik Erikson

Adolescents need freedom to choose, but not so much freedom that they cannot, in fact, make a choice.

Choices

Facts

Needs

Babies control and bring up their families as much as they are controlled by them; in fact … the family brings up baby by being brought up by him.

Baby

Controlled

Facts

Children cannot be fooled by empty praise and condescending encouragement. They may have to accept artificial bolstering of their self-esteem in lieu of something better, but what I call their accruing ego identity gains real strength only from wholehearted and consistent recognition of real accomplishment, that is, achievement that has meaning in their culture.

Children

Encouragement

Real

Children love and want to be loved and they very much prefer the joy of accomplishment to the triumph of hateful failure. Do not mistake a child for his symptom.

Accomplishment

Children

Mistake

Do not mistake a child for his symptom.

Children

Mistake

Wisdom

Doubt is the brother of shame.

Brother

Doubt

Shame

Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.

Children

Death

Life

Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. Others have called this deepest quality confidence, and I have referred to trust as the earliest positive psychosocial attitude, but if life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired.

Hope

Insightful

Life

Hope is the enduring belief in the attainability of fervent wishes, in spite of the dark urges and rages which mark the beginning of existence. Hope is the ontogenetic basis of faith, and is nourished by the adult faith which pervades patterns of care.

Care

Dark

Wish

If life is to be sustained, hope must remain.

Anticipation

Ifs

Life Is

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Quotes by Erik Erikson

Erik Erikson

Adolescents need freedom to choose, but not so much freedom that they cannot, in fact, make a choice.

Babies control and bring up their families as much as they are controlled by them; in fact … the family brings up baby by being brought up by him.

Children love and want to be loved and they very much prefer the joy of accomplishment to the triumph of hateful failure. Do not mistake a child for his symptom.

Do not mistake a child for his symptom.

Doubt is the brother of shame.

Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.

Hope is the enduring belief in the attainability of fervent wishes, in spite of the dark urges and rages which mark the beginning of existence. Hope is the ontogenetic basis of faith, and is nourished by the adult faith which pervades patterns of care.

If life is to be sustained, hope must remain.

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