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Describe the first five stages of Erik Erickson’s Theory of personality.

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Erik Erickson : Erickson like Homey emphasized (1902-1944) the importance of thinking process of conscious mind unlike Freud whose primary focus was an unconscious mind. Erickson developed a new approach of developmental milestone. He introduced eight stages a psycho social development where he described the 8 chief conflict areas of crises along with their respective favorable and unfavorable outcomes which play key role in personality development at that particular stages

Stage Crisi Favourable outcome Unfavourable Outcome
1st Trust vs Mistrust Faith in environment and Future events Suspicion fear of future events.
2nd autonomy vs Shame and doubt Asense of self control and adequacy Felling of shame and doubt on self.
3rd Initiatives vs Guilt To self start initiate one's own activity All alone a sense of inadequacy and  guilt.
4th Industry vs inferiority Learns how things word, can understand and organise material Feels a sense of inferiority in understanding and organising and guilt.
5th Identify vs rule confusion Perceiving oneself as unique and integrated individual Confusion over one really is.

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